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Staff announcements rang out on a PA system.—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 27 May 2026 Investigators and lawmakers on the panel were mystified as to why Eastland hadn’t ordered a large-scale evacuation over the PA system or gone cabin-to-cabin to ask girls to evacuate by foot.—Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026 The statement over the arena’s PA system was nearly drowned out by a raucous cheer, and the energy in the building never faded until the UConn women’s basketball team was holding its Big East championship trophy under a rainbow shower of confetti.—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026 An estimated 7,000 people filled the open plaza near City Hall, where speakers addressed the crowd from a PA system set up near the Triumph of the Human Spirit fountain.—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for PA system