walkie-talkie
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The Chinese require a formal diplomatic note, submitted well in advance, for every firearm and walkie-talkie the U.S. wishes to bring in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
On Sunday, McCullum was seen sending messages via walkie-talkie to the England players during drinks breaks as they squeezed home against Nepal in a last-ball nail-biter in Mumbai.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Already nervous, Laxamana said she was distracted by a walkie-talkie that crackled with voices as she tried to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024
After the pager and walkie-talkie attacks, President Joe Biden, along with some European allies, proposed a 21-day cease-fire in Lebanon.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2024
One of them said something else into his walkie-talkie and then they all hiked back through the sand and over the guardrail to their cars.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
Sales of walkie-talkies from Russia’s main online retailer have risen 73% in the past month, according to business newspaper Kommersant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Fuad Farhat, 55, from the area's Bab Touma district, was supervising the deployment of several unarmed, black-clad Christian men with walkie-talkies in front of the churches.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
They had parked in the back of the facility, and they had walkie-talkies.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
But as with the many monitors, the walkie-talkies and rotary phones and control panels all worked, a verisimilitude that, to Benesch, made each uninterrupted, carefully choreographed take that much more stressful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
He hadn’t given them ordinary walkie-talkies because he didn’t want anybody listening to the talk, especially the news media, who might make a tape recording of the chatter.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
