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microphone

[mahy-kruh-fohn] / ˈmaɪ krəˌfoʊn /
NOUN
instrument that transforms sound waves into electric currents
Synonyms
STRONGEST
mic mike
STRONG
WEAK


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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

“Long Beach Pride in the house,” Richardson boomed into a microphone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 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

And then, the millisecond after he hands me a rolled-up certificate tied with a curled blue ribbon, he leans back toward the microphone.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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