background noise
noun
: undesired sound that is heard in a radio broadcast, a tape recording, etc.
The recording had a lot of background noise.
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
The Cowboys haven’t played in a Super Bowl since 1996, back when a tweet meant the sound of a bird (rather than the name of a social media platform), a Blockbuster run meant movie night, and that dial-up internet sound was unmistakable background noise in all of our lives.
—Eric Prisbell, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
Cosmic ray detectors hunt rare antideuterons as dark matter annihilation signatures—but galactic cosmic rays smashing into interstellar gas also produce them, creating background noise.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
The law exists only as background noise, something that applies to other people, lesser people, invisible people.
—Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
The Cowboys haven’t played in a Super Bowl since 1996, back when a tweet meant the sound of a bird (rather than the name of a social media platform), a Blockbuster run meant movie night, and that dial-up internet sound was unmistakable background noise in all of our lives.
—Eric Prisbell, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
Cosmic ray detectors hunt rare antideuterons as dark matter annihilation signatures—but galactic cosmic rays smashing into interstellar gas also produce them, creating background noise.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
The law exists only as background noise, something that applies to other people, lesser people, invisible people.
—Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
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“Background noise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/background%20noise. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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