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Recent Examples of sound bite
The segment included sound bites from President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
Even genuine passion for a film on the awards track can descend into repetitive sound bites and rote red-carpet appearances.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
Ahead of the episode, Harry and Colbert, 61, made a cheeky social media video set to a viral Great British Bake Off sound bite.
—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
Every red carpet misstep, every viral sound bite, is instantly flattened into content.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
Even genuine passion for a film on the awards track can descend into repetitive sound bites and rote red-carpet appearances.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
Ahead of the episode, Harry and Colbert, 61, made a cheeky social media video set to a viral Great British Bake Off sound bite.
—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
Every red carpet misstep, every viral sound bite, is instantly flattened into content.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sound bite
Noun
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Not only did the lyrics appear on the video screen behind the musicians, but they also were animated onto the clip itself.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
6 Feb. 2026
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The roughly minute-long video centered on footage discussing unsubstantiated voter fraud allegations in the 2020 presidential election before briefly flipping to the clip of the Obamas.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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What’s known about beetroot and spirulina extract The petition that raised beetroot red for the FDA’s consideration was submitted in November 2023 by Phytolon, a natural colors manufacturer based in Israel.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Certain chaga teas will have just the chaga extract, while others will contain the black crust — which contains a high concentration of melanin — from the exterior of the fungus.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Davidson’s chat with Kelly has no structure, no segments, and no particular gimmick; and while none of that is required of a podcast, some sense of organization can help shape an otherwise-unformed snippet of conversation.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
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The Hoenikker character, who abandons his car in a traffic jam one day and walks the rest of the way to work, and well, here's a snippet from the audio version of Cat's Cradle, told from the point of view of one of Hoenikker’s/Langmuir’s children.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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An excerpt from the original 1986 interview by Franz Lidz is below.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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That’s one of the le Carré quotations, which is literal and metaphorical.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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Your interest in being able to toss an Alexander Pope quotation or an offhand fact about the history of saffron into a conversation is true.—
Talia Argondezzi,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Sound bite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sound%20bite. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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