canned music
Example Sentences
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In 2002, its radio stations in Minot, N.D., aired canned music as a toxic cloud blanketed the community after a train transporting anhydrous ammonia for fertilizer derailed and exploded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
“The energy that comes from live music versus canned music is really palpable, especially in a sports setting,” he said.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
From a few feet below you can see the creases of his jowls as he shouts above the canned music.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2020
The canned music already included the song’s near-dog-whistle vocal flourish, which Ms. Carey no longer pretends to be able to deliver.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2017
I prefer the good mechanical cabinet that offers us "canned" music to the manual exercise of people who insist on playing wherever they see an open piano.
From The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe
