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sound bite

noun as in very brief broadcast statement

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“Their window just went from having 30 minutes on ‘Morning Joe,’ where influencers are, to 35 seconds on a morning show or maybe a sound bite on ‘NBC Nightly News.’

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North pointed to the adage that “it takes a minute to say a sound bite, but an hour to explain why it is false.”

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Twenty-three years of a smug, smarmy host, and a bunch of sportswriters desperate for sound bites and attention.

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The experience is the opposite of what one feels by the image glut and sound bites of modern life, the psychologically destabilizing ether of digital distractions that can oppress the soul.

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One Tasmanian doctor tells the BBC it is just a "good election sound bite".