microphone
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Henion attended that evening’s Town Council meeting, where she stepped to the microphone to demand answers about what she called “the elephant in the room.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Known as oto-acoustic emissions, these sounds can be detected by placing a sensitive microphone inside the ear canal.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Pegasus can be installed surreptitiously onto a target's smartphone and read messages, geolocate and secretly turn on the device's camera and microphone -- effectively turning the phone into a pocket spy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
And on red carpets and film festivals, you can find movie and industry leaders feeding their four favorite films into a microphone emblazoned with Letterboxd’s orange, green and blue dot logo.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Joe hadn’t built a drone that could fly a microphone up to Mom, in plain sight of the whole auditorium.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“Shaping Sounds” offers considerable technical information about microphones, recording equipment and studio layout—a valuable document from the era of analog recording.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
AFP joined conservationists, rangers and locals this month as they retrieved and replaced cameras and microphones in the forest.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
How will he react when 185 million microphones are pointed at him?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The Hearts captain, Lawrence Shankland, might have been seething about the late events at Fir Park, but for the microphones he stayed focused on the big prize.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
In each room, in addition to an electric fan, a metal table, and folding metal chairs, there are camouflaged microphones, concealed tape recorders, and, set into the door, a mirrored one-way observation window.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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