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jukebox

[jook-boks] / ˈdʒukˌbɒks /
NOUN
music box
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Lunch finished, we settle next to a Wurlitzer jukebox in the corner of the room.

From BBC May 27, 2026

So instead, Jackson’s family — who largely backed the film — producer Graham King and director Antoine Fuqua opted to refocus the film more squarely on his music, effectively turning it into a jukebox musical.

From MarketWatch Apr. 26, 2026

“MJ,” the jukebox musical based on his life, is in its fourth year on Broadway and has had both national and international showings.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

At a cafe in California, he put quarter after quarter into a jukebox so he could listen to “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

I had to speak loudly to make him hear me above the shouts and the amplified wails of jukebox rock-and-roll music.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

The list consists of more than 200 pages of products ranging from big ticket items such as airplanes to niche imports including jukeboxes, chewing gum and umbrellas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 2026

Today we all walk around with the equivalent of portable jukeboxes in our hands, able to access virtually every song known to man for ourselves and our children.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 7, 2025

That means that in my breakdown below, the quality tends to improve as you move from jukeboxes to revivals to originals.

From New York Times Jan. 19, 2023

We’re talking about a furor unlike anything we’d seen since men with sledgehammers were smashing jukeboxes, trying to kill rock ’n’ roll in the 1950s.

From Seattle Times Sep. 11, 2022

When other entrepreneurs created jukeboxes by arranging for a phonograph to play popular music at the drop of a coin, Edison objected to this debasement, which apparently detracted from serious office use of his invention.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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