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microphone

noun as in instrument that transforms sound waves into electric currents

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He helped to launch Capital Radio in 1973, working as a producer before moving in front of the microphone.

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Led by the drummer and fan armed with a microphone, the travelling supporters and players celebrated their famous triumph together at the end.

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“It all started with the idea of just sticking DeLa and I on stage with two microphones and the topic of Christmas and letting us go wild,” Jinkx laughs.

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We see Ella Fitzgerald at New York’s Basin Street East in the mid-1950s; her eyes closed, she gently leans into a microphone that she caresses with both hands.

Not long after that, they saw the first bootleg merchandise: a toy version of Mico, el Micófono, a character that is just a microphone with googly eyes that street vendors could easily replicate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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