mikes

• “It was after that meeting that the number of "mikes," which is the magazine's star-system for rating bands, was increased on the Made Men review from three and a half to four and a half.”

  New York's Deborah Mitchell Jumps to Ed Kosner's Sunday Daily News

• “mikes" and "speakers" was speedily applied to a jetmarine under Arv's supervision.”

  Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung

• “At the time I was temping by day and performing open mikes at night.”

  The Huffington Post: Karen Shepard: Adventures in Small Space

• “The slim plots and the faculty members with the exception of a guest appearance by Gwyneth Paltrow have been dropped, leaving only the pupils to prance around on a cruciform stage, singing familiar pop songs and waving their cordless mikes like ice-cream cornets.”

  The Guardian: Glee: The 3D Concert Movie – review

• “He and his crew were adepts in the new recording technology — the shotgun mikes, the sparkling Nagra sound equipment, and the handheld, quick-load Eclair NPR cameras that would effect the McLuhan-esque transmutation of Woodstock into Woodstock.”

  Woodstock Nation

• “As the planes approached, a voice crackled over the radio network warning everyone else to stand by: "Everyone stay off the net for the next 10 mikes minutes until the bird drops.”

  The Wall Street Journal: U.S.'s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline

• “I viewed about a half-dozen people sitting at small work areas facing three walls wearing headphones and mikes making telephone calls.”

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• “They all carried MP5s and wore small earpieces and throat mikes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Gideon’s war

• “Gandy then screamed at us & turned off our mikes -- not allowing us to defend ourselves.”

  Sunday at NOW 2009

• “It was the first and only time that it happened, as the artists' career trajectories headed in vastly different directions after this incredible meeting of the mikes.”

  The Huffington Post: Danny Groner: Million Dollar Quartet: A Trip Inside Rock History

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