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radio

[ray-dee-oh] / ˈreɪ diˌoʊ /


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It’s nice to have something to direct people to outside of the radio show, there’s a body of work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Speaking to Spanish sports radio station COPE, he said the club behaved impeccably and pursued him properly from the first approach.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“When schools are destroyed, when bus shelters are targeted, when transport is attacked, we seek the civil liability of the parents,” Darmanin told local radio station RTL.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Along the radio jets, however, the H-alpha signal became much stronger and easier to detect.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Their times are kept in a book and sent by radio from one checkpoint to the next.

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

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

L3Harris provides waveforms and radios that can help circumvent the type of electronic jamming that Russia has been using to disrupt Ukrainian drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

For a time, according to court documents, he once handled the important job of “maintaining radios and communications” for Guzmán Salazar, ensuring that one of the most wanted men in Mexico could operate freely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The mint also uses recycled silver, some of it extracted from old radios supplied by British hospitals.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The German army had taken everything—cars, petrol, radios, animals, food.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

He had no idea until one of the other choppers radioed him to tell him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Early next morning, a drone was sent up and soon after, the operator radioed them.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

"See you in a few, Commander," Watney radioed back. . . four . . . three . . . two .

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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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