microphone
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He wore a microphone in the locker room and allowed me to give readers a behind-the-scenes look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mangione leaned into the microphone before him and stated: "Guilty."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Just as important as Kiffin’s ability to light up scoreboards was his knack for using any microphone within earshot to stir up attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Upon retiring in 1992, Smith Jr. moved behind a microphone, teaming with Scott Kaplan on a popular radio show on the Mighty 1090, a station that went off the air in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
When they began marching toward the White House, Marx held up her microphone to catch the antiwar chants.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Standing microphones, placed on different tiers of the set, never let us forget that Wilson was first and foremost a conductor of voices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
A maracas solo by Ernesto Laya, however, seemed to be too soft to be picked up by the microphones, yet he held a cheering crowd rapt simply by his rhythmic movements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He and fellow pundits Joe Hart and Micah Richards swapped their microphones for oars and took to the Hudson River in New York.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
His recording technique was “subjective,” as he put it, placing microphones to either side of the drums or piano so that we hear them as the musician does when playing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Later the authorities installed microphones and speakers in front of the glass, a marginal improvement.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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