Broadcast
Broadcast verb - To cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people.
Usage example: broadcast the information only to people who needed to know
Contain
Contain verb - To have within.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Although rare, it is also not unheard of for a series to contain fourteen episodes in its original broadcast.
Source: Twelve-Episode Anime - However, the American syndicated airings on the A&E Channel contain scenes which weren't broadcast during its initial broadcast run (for instance, a longer gunfight between Jack Bauer and the Drazen family in the first season finale).
Source: Edited for Syndication - There are a number of quite different versions circulating that have been released for home video, screened in cinemas, or broadcast, some of which contain both the violence and the sex, some of which contain only one of them, and some of which have neither.
Source: Re Cut
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Contain and Broadcast. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/broadcast/contain
Broadcast & Contain. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/broadcast/contain>.
Contain or Broadcast. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/broadcast/contain.
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