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radio

[rey-dee-oh] / ˈreɪ diˌoʊ /


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"Climate change is what kills, what destroys our villages and our natural and cultural heritage," civil protection chief Virginia Barcones told Spanish radio.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

While radio coverage remains on BBC Radio 5 Live, it means there will be no free-to-air live TV coverage.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

“They were a real band that had a radio hit, and not a radio band reverse engineered,” the Get Up Kids’ Suptic said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Chinese forces announced the drill by radio shortly before it was carried out, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

There was a blizzard in Rohn, the next station, the radio said.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Innovations such as radios, automobiles and airplanes compressed distances and rapidly altered daily life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

In addition to cars, marvels like refrigerators, radios and washing machines became commonplace.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

The controller then realizes what is about to happen and urgently radios:

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

"Some schools have phone, radios - some you just open the door and shout out into the corridor and nobody comes," she said.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2026

“But since I am not crazy, I do not care. And the rich have radios to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the baseball.”

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

“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

“Hold your course, no turns please. You are not under threat of being attacked,” an officer from a U.S. warship radioed to the Alliance Fairfax, according to recordings reviewed by the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 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

He passed her envelopes containing reports on everything British scientists knew about atomic bomb physics, and she radioed the material to Moscow.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

The navigation officer was on the bridge radioing the Iranian navy a question that had become maddeningly repetitive and desperately urgent: When would the ship be able to leave?

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 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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