background music
Example Sentences
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The tariffs have largely been background music as investors weigh the artificial-intelligence build-out and inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
A speech Bass delivered at Raman’s rally in Sherman Oaks was turned into a social media video with stirring background music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
This is part of the background music in America: Americans who aren’t unemployed and do have a house are afraid that in the next few years they could lose their job, their security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Our expert content team has a way of sprinkling soothing magic on all of our Sleep Stories through the narrator's cadence to the background music to get people to lull to sleep.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2024
If any student objects to background music, you should not use it.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
