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jukebox

[jook-boks] / ˈdʒukˌbɒks /
NOUN
music box
Synonyms


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The Halloween season always comes with certain classic songs that turn any jukebox into a haunted house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

As Ahmed demonstrates, the film’s documentary style both reimagined the jukebox musical and captured the frenzy of mid-1960s filmmaking.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Hell’s Kitchen,” a New York story of a wunderkind discovering her gift, helped me get over my allergy to the jukebox genre.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

Lunch finished, we settle next to a Wurlitzer jukebox in the corner of the room.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Inside, under a dark, low-slung ceiling, there are four pool tables, a long bar, and a jukebox that plays Latino music.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

When he built a home he had wiring installed for jukeboxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

In the 1980s, jukeboxes with 45s gave way to CD jukeboxes, then a generation later, to streaming ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

The coin-operated mini jukeboxes at each table still work, but they’re so old that George and Pamela know of only one mechanic who can repair them — and he recently moved to the Pacific Northwest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 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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