disc jockey

variants or disk jockey

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Recent Examples of disc jockey The former disc jockey, born Winston Conrad Martindale, died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, California, while surrounded by his family, The Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times reported. Edward Segarra, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025 Martindale began his career in show business as a disc jockey in his hometown of Jackson, Tennessee at 17 years old. Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025 Lives Lived: John Peck, known as the Mad Peck, was a cultural omnivore whose work as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic and disc jockey had a dry humor and an ornate eccentricity. German Lopez, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 Big Al Sams, the popular Sacramento radio disc jockey and TV personality considered by colleagues an ambassador to the city, has died. Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disc jockey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disc jockey
Noun
  • Nearly every line in the film’s ferociously hilarious first hour is like Jane Austen reborn as a shock jock, until Song runs out of material and starts repeating herself.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
  • Related Articles Trump taps shock jock Sid Rosenberg and a Haredi newspaper publisher for Holocaust Memorial Council The new data is being published two weeks after the conclusion of Trump’s first 100 days in office.
    Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • With Chisholm out of the game, the Yankees shifted Oswald Peraza to third base, with DJ LeMahieu filling in at second.
    Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 25 June 2025
  • Through 33 games, DJ LeMahieu is slashing .245/.321/.337 and has not been the best defensively.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • After Duke’s Cooper Flagg, Rutgers’ Dylan Harper, Baylor’s VJ Edgecombe, Duke’s Kon Knueppel, Rutgers’ Ace Bailey, Texas’ Tre Johnson and Oklahoma’s Jeremiah Fears were selected in the top seven, the Nets held firm at No. 8, drafting BYU’s Egor Demin, their first lottery pick since 2010.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
  • Rutgers’ Dylan Harper went No. 2 to San Antonio, followed by Baylor’s VJ Edgecombe (No. 3, Philadelphia) and Duke’s Kon Knueppel (No. 4, Charlotte).
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 26 June 2025

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