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wire recording

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noun

  1. a recording made on a wire recorder.

  2. an act or instance of recording on a wire recorder.


Example Sentences

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By June 2024, someone in the circle was cooperating with federal investigators and wearing a wire, recording Williamson’s private conversations, according to transcripts included in the indictment.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

And curators are in talks with Bergh about a new machine he’s developing that can play back wire recording, a midcentury format that captured audio on a thin steel wire.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023

This scene, after Farrow plays his copy of the wire recording that confirms Gutierrez's story about Weinstein, is typical of the internal road blocks their story met with while it was still in progress:

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2019

A clip from the wire recording, which became ambience for the planet Sullust.

From The Verge • Nov. 17, 2015

Rick pondered that bit of information while Lacson and Zircon worked with Dr. Gonzalez, a short, bald Filipino, on the translation of the wire recording.

From The Pirates of Shan by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)