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Exciting tale shot on camera briefly (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

romance

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'exciting tale' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'shot on camera briefly' is the wordplay.
'shot' indicates an anagram.
'briefly' means to remove the last letter.
'on'+'camera'='oncamera'
'oncamera' with its last letter removed is 'oncamer'.
'oncamer' with letters rearranged gives 'ROMANCE'.

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(Other definitions for romance that I've seen before include "Feeling of mystery; love affair" , "mysterious quality" , "fairy story?" , "(Wonderful) piece of fiction" , "Love-story" .)

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