VOX

[voks]

noun

1. a device in certain types of telecommunications equipment, as telephone answering machines, that converts an incoming voice or sound signal into an electrical signal that turns on a transmitter or recorder that continues to operate as long as the incoming signal is maintained.

vox

/ vɒks /

noun

1. a voice or sound

Word History and Origins

Origin of vox¹

Acronym from voice-operated keying, altered to conform to Latin vōx voice

Word History and Origins

Origin of vox¹

Latin: voice

Example Sentences

On this week’s episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed this increasingly pointed backlash from within the judiciary with Vox’s Ian Millhiser.

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On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick spoke to Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox, who writes about the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States, and attempted to understand whether this is a logical explanation of the conservatives’ thinking.

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Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern are joined by Vox’s Ian Millhiser to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court term, which officially starts on Monday.

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“If there’s one thing a large majority of Americans have consistently agreed on this year, it’s that the Democratic Party sucks,” Christian Paz wrote in a new essay at Vox.

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“A small uptick in cow’s milk intake is, obviously, not tantamount to the calamities that have been unleashed over the last six weeks in American politics,” wrote Vox’s Marina Bolotnikova back in March.

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