elevator music
noun
: instrumental arrangements of popular songs often piped in (as to an elevator or retail store)
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The radios by default play calming elevator music, perhaps for the apprehensive.
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Alex Golden, Axios, 28 May 2025
The climactic battle feels hasty in the moment, but dragging it out any longer — or worse, having to make everyone recite the usual vampire-killing rules — would have been duller than elevator music.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
But compared with the riotous diversity of a rainforest, the columns — like brigades of upright feather dusters — can become as monotonous as elevator music.
—Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
But there’s something unexplainable as to why their bats make elevator music in front of their loud, faithful fans.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
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Alex Golden, Axios, 28 May 2025
The climactic battle feels hasty in the moment, but dragging it out any longer — or worse, having to make everyone recite the usual vampire-killing rules — would have been duller than elevator music.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
But compared with the riotous diversity of a rainforest, the columns — like brigades of upright feather dusters — can become as monotonous as elevator music.
—Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
But there’s something unexplainable as to why their bats make elevator music in front of their loud, faithful fans.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
See All Example Sentences for elevator music
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“Elevator music.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elevator%20music. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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