radio
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When she started the organization, Naughton noted, there were more talk radio hosts on Capitol Hill than scientists and engineers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Palestinian journalist Anas Baba of NPR won the radio award for a report on the recovery of victims' bodies in Gaza.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
To make it transmit radio waves, the team also needed a way to deliver an electrical signal to the plasma without relying on a conventional physical connection.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
A native of San Jose, she grew up in a conservative household where the radio was permanently tuned to Christian stations.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
She slept a lot, listened to the radio, and she read books, lots of books.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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The cut fiber line was a backup data feed that was unavailable when a primary circuit failed, leading to a loss of radar data and radios, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Car radios were still uncommon, but one afternoon, the airborne commander spent 20 minutes chewing out a Sunday driver he saw weaving and dodging through a traffic jam in Queens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
People dug out lanterns and old radios, and companies scrambled to save what production they could.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
By the 50s it was making tape recorders and transistor radios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Except for the squeak of the windshield wipers and the squawking police radios, all you could hear was the rain hitting the car roof.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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He had no idea until one of the other choppers radioed him to tell him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
“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
More than 15 minutes later, responders radioed that CPR was in progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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
There, acting on instructions radioed up from Guy Cotter at Base Camp, I scouted for a level area that could serve as a helicopter landing pad.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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“Avoid the area ahead, it’s a hot area now,” Kuwaiti controllers are heard radioing to a pilot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
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
Prosecutors criticized Potter for not immediately radioing in what happened at the traffic stop.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
So Teddy was the one who first spoke the words in our code, radioing back to General Smith at his command post on the beach.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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