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
Bayard Rustin, who organized the largest civil rights march in American history from the background as an openly gay man in 1963, and let other men stand at the microphone.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
I’d be rushing out to practice and some guy would stick a microphone in my face and start asking questions.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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
Journalists crowd together in the hope of hearing from him, microphones are thrust into the air and camera operators stretch above the crowd for the briefest glimpse of the game's biggest star.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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
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
On the other days of the week, the teachers wore microphones that worked with her hearing aids somehow.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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