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microphone

[mahy-kruh-fohn] / ˈmaɪ krəˌfoʊn /
NOUN
instrument that transforms sound waves into electric currents
Synonyms
STRONGEST
mic mike
STRONG
WEAK


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Burns, a retired police officer, looked up from his microphone and hissed back: “Tee-hee-hee, by a bunch of idiots!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But when a clown’s only trick is shouting into a live microphone, the absolute worst thing that can happen is for the cameras to simply turn off.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Hanny Junee was getting ready to sing Coldplay's hit Viva la Vida to a small audience in Trafalgar Square when the star joined him by the microphone and started singing along.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Araujo’s only other tools are a microphone and a laptop, on which he’s installed an interactive software program he created that tracks the lineups of both teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Then he tapped his finger against the microphone.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

We watch coders: And, yes, they’re coding with microphones, they’re coding with headsets, they’re speaking to their code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

But from what I could tell on Thursday, the member's microphones were live all night, with a backing track doubling their vocals at crucial moments.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

As they continued into their first set of songs, it became apparent that the volume on their microphones was a bit low, leaving lyrics drowned in the rest of the mix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

It contains cameras and microphones that vacuum up sensitive data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Combing the crowd’s edges were reporters with microphones and notebooks.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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