radio
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Despite being Texas-raised and Arkansas-educated, Smith Jr. became synonymous with San Diego by spending the rest of his life in the sunny SoCal city as a sportscaster, radio host and big-hearted, larger-than-life personality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
He didn’t like composing radio hooks or fronting a traditional band.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
"The millimeter and submillimeter radio bands remain almost completely unexplored for SETI, so this is really about opening up a new area of parameter space to search."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
"It's very unusual. I had no warnings on the VHF radio or saw any flags indicating what was about to happen."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
He had abandoned it and was trying to reach a group of people who he had overheard on his truck’s CB radio.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Hichwa was working, while in school, for a defense company, building military-grade radios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Heads of kindergartens are given specialized crisis training and emergency supplies with radios, first-aid kits and portable stoves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
In addition to cars, marvels like refrigerators, radios and washing machines became commonplace.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Rubinstein remembers how people who were fond of cross-country skiing – a very popular pastime in winter in Russia – used to take their radios with them out of town, where there were fewer jammers.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
The road's too far away to hear car radios no matter how loud they are.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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“We’ve had a fire in the cabin; it was a mobile phone that scorched the inside of the cabin,” a pilot on board the BA flight radioed to air-traffic controllers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Antonelli was closing at such a pace that a win seemed inevitable, but then he radioed that something was wrong with his car and he couldn't steer.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Minutes earlier, the pilot radioed in to staff at the tower, SoCal Approach, asking if a drone was near that location.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
While it’s normal for many passers to make audible adjustments based on what a coordinator has radioed in from the booth, McDaniels expects a higher degree of analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
"Commander," Martinez radioed, "we're tilting 11.6 degrees. One good gust and we're tipping."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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About 15 minutes after the collision, the controller is still on duty, radioing to a Frontier pilot lined up for the same runway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
"As soon as I stepped my foot over the threshold of the door, they were radioing each other and they all surrounded me and were like 'you need to leave the store'," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
Moments after the capsule reached orbit, a SpaceX mission control manager was heard jokingly radioing to the crew: "If you enjoyed your ride, please don't forget to give us five stars."
From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2023
I call on the way and, like the pilot of a stricken plane radioing ahead with an order to foam the runway, I request that they get some drum hardware bags ready for me.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
The only thing happening was a lot of radioing between mission control and the astronauts.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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