radio
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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
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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
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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
“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
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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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