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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A brief statement, as by a politician, taken from an audiotape or videotape and broadcast especially during a news report: "The box has been spitting forth maddening nine-second sound bites” ( Mary McGrory).

Wiktionary

  1. n. journalism, television An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.
  2. n. often pejorative A one-liner deliberately produced for this purpose; a statement specifically intended to be punchy and memorable.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a very short speech; usually on radio or television

Etymologies

  1. sound +‎ bite (Wiktionary)

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  • chained_bear This is probably the proper (or at least the original) spelling. See also comments on the sound byte page. Oct 22, 2007

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