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Ready Player One (film)
Ready Player One (2018), Steven Spielberg's Warner Bros. film adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 novel, follows Wade Watts in the OASIS treasure hunt; screenplay by Zak Penn and Cline, Oscar-nominated VFX, a Ready Player Two sequel in development.
Ready Player Two
Ready Player Two is Ernest Cline's 2020 sequel novel to Ready Player One, continuing Wade Watts's story in the OASIS virtual world with a new technological advancement and quest; a Zak Penn-written film adaptation remains in development.
Ready Responders
Ready Responders was a New Orleans-based healthcare startup, founded in 2016, that sent EMTs, paramedics, and nurses to patients' homes for non-emergency care paired with telehealth clinicians.
Ready Set Learn!
Ready Set Learn! was TLC and Discovery Kids' commercial-free preschool programming block, launched December 28, 1992 with host Rory, relaunched February 24, 2003 with mascot Paz the penguin, ending on TLC in 2008 and with The Hub's 2010 launch.
Ready Steady Cook
Ready Steady Cook is a British daytime cookery game show (BBC Two, 1994–2010; revived BBC One 2020) where contestants hand chefs a £5 bag of groceries to turn into a meal in 20 minutes, with red tomato and green pepper audience voting cards.
Ready to Be World Tour
The Ready to Be World Tour was the fifth world tour by South Korean girl group Twice, supporting their 2023 mini album Ready to Be and playing 51 shows.
Ready to Die
Ready to Die is The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut studio album, released September 13, 1994 on Bad Boy Records, executive produced by Sean Combs; 6x Platinum, with hits "Juicy," "Big Poppa," and "One More Chance," and inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2024.
Ready to Rumble
Ready to Rumble is a 2000 Warner Bros. comedy directed by Brian Robbins, starring David Arquette, Scott Caan, and Oliver Platt as WCW fans helping wrestler Jimmy King reclaim his title; it bombed at the box office and spawned Arquette's infamous WCW championship run.
Ready-mix concrete
Ready-mix concrete, or ready mix, is concrete batched at a central plant to an engineered mix design and delivered to the construction site freshly mixed and unhardened, usually in a revolving-drum transit mixer.
Ready-to-use therapeutic food
Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is an energy-dense, vitamin-enriched paste, typically peanut and milk based, used to treat severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 59 months at home.
Ready-to-wear
Ready-to-wear, or prêt-à-porter, is clothing made in pre-established standard sizes and produced in series for sale off the rack, as opposed to made-to-measure or bespoke garments cut for a single client.
ReadyBoost
ReadyBoost, also known as Windows ReadyBoost, is a Windows feature, introduced with Vista in 2007, that uses flash memory on a USB drive or SD card as a read cache.
Readymade
A readymade is a work of art made from an existing ordinary object that the artist selects and signs, coined by Marcel Duchamp in New York around 1915.
Readymade Records
Readymade Records was a Japanese record label owned by Nippon Columbia, created in 1997 by Yasuharu Konishi of Pizzicato Five and reestablished as columbia*readymade in 2006.
Reagan (2023 film)
Reagan (2023 film), released theatrically in 2024, is a Sean McNamara biographical drama starring Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan, narrated by a fictional KGB agent and based on Paul Kengor's The Crusader; it grossed $30 million on a $25 million budget with 17% critic and 98% audience scores.
Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was the Reagan administration's 1980s policy of openly aiding anti-communist insurgencies, named after Reagan's February 1985 State of the Union pledge that support for freedom fighters is self-defense, applied in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola, and Cambodia.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
Reagan Gomez-Preston (also Reagan Gomez), born 1980 in Detroit, is an American actress, writer, and voice actress known for Zaria Peterson on The Parent 'Hood and voicing Roberta Tubbs on The Cleveland Show.
Reagan tax cuts
The Reagan tax cuts were the 1981 and 1986 tax acts under President Ronald Reagan, which lowered the top individual rate from 70 to 28 percent.
Reaganomics
Reaganomics, also known as Voodoo Economics, was President Ronald Reagan's economic program of tax cuts, deregulation, and spending restraint from 1981 to 1989, which lowered inflation but raised deficits.
Reagent
A reagent, also called a chemical reagent, is a substance added to a chemical system to bring about a reaction or test whether one occurs, as in analytical testing.
Reagent Strips
Reagent strips are chemically impregnated strips for detecting substances, chiefly urine dipsticks and blood glucose strips; history runs from Maumené's 1850 wool strip through Pavy and Oliver's 1880s dry chemistry to Clinistix (1956) and Multistix.
Reaktor (software)
Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio by German company Native Instruments, begun as GENERATOR in 1996, where musicians build instruments, samplers, and effects from modules into ensembles.
Real (리얼) (2017 film)
Real (리얼) is a 2017 South Korean neo-noir action film directed by Lee Sa-rang, starring Kim Soo-hyun in a dual role as casino boss Jang Tae-young and his lookalike investor, with Sung Dong-il, Lee Sung-min, and Sulli. A notorious box-office bomb (470,195 admissions against a 3 million breakeven) that spawned the Korean meme "Real-grade" and resurged on Netflix in 2025.
Real (リアル) (manga)
Real (リアル) is a wheelchair basketball manga by Takehiko Inoue, serialized in Weekly Young Jump since 1999, following Nomiya, Togawa, and Takahashi; it won the 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award.
Real Academia de San Carlos
The Real Academia de San Carlos was a royal academy of fine arts in Mexico City, erected by Charles III in 1783 and inaugurated in 1785.
Real Acuerdo
The Real Acuerdo was the governing council formed when the viceroy of New Spain or Peru sat with the audiencia's judges, issuing resolutions called autos acordados.
Real American Freestyle
Real American Freestyle, also known as RAF Wrestling, is an American professional freestyle wrestling promotion founded in April 2025 by Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, and Izzy Martinez.
Real analysis
Real analysis, also called real variable analysis, is the rigorous branch of mathematics underlying calculus, built on the completeness of the real numbers and covering limits, continuity, differentiation, and integration.
Real and nominal value
Real and nominal value is the economic distinction between values at current prices and values at constant reference-period prices, converted with a price index or deflator.
Real Audiencia of Buenos Aires
The Real Audiencia of Buenos Aires was the superior royal court of the Río de la Plata, sitting from 1661 to 1671 and again from 1785 to 1812.