microphone
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Perhaps he should puff out his chest and stop sharing the microphone with his OKC teammates.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Over a microphone, designer Callie Kinnan describes her decision to resew the entire garment in a new material: “The stretch mesh didn’t work. It kept warping when I sewed.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
But things turned strange the morning of April 12, when the ship's captain announced into a microphone that a passenger had died.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
One hand holding a microphone, the other arm tightly tucked across her chest, she retreated to her zones of rhetorical comfort: grievance, victimhood, outrage.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
But a bearded Russian named Alex Goldfarb, a rumpled-looking microbiologist, leaned over his microphone and, in his accented English, startled everyone by saying, “So, Russia is a TB nightmare.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: micro
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