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phonograph

[foh-nuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈfoʊ nəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /
NOUN
turntable
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Visitors also encountered the phonograph and early mechanical fastening devices that foreshadowed later developments in clothing closures.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

An animated trailer appears to draw on the story of Korean students whose singing of the song US anthropologist Alice Fletcher recorded on a cylinder phonograph in Washington in 1896.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

These funds were used to purchase local books, periodicals, phonograph records, and "other media" in multiple Indian languages, enriching collections at over two dozen universities.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2024

Ms. Stoneman made her mark in 1957 with her driving instrumental version of “Lonesome Road Blues,” which made her the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.

From New York Times Feb. 26, 2024

“My mother played opera on the phonograph for me,” Vivian replied.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

That same year, Jones sought a preliminary injunction from a New York federal court to prevent 20th Century Fox and another record company from selling phonographs of the “I Have a Dream” speech.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience the vibrations in his skull.

From Seattle Times Nov. 1, 2022

Money talks but backward, like those ancient phonographs alleged to howl if played in reverse.

From Washington Post Oct. 2, 2022

In experiments with phonographs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy prefigured musique concrète and the work of John Cage.

From New York Times Aug. 22, 2019

Here everything was colors to me: the red clang of the streetcars, blue music from phonographs, silver laughter of people.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli




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