VOX

American

[voks] / vɒks /

noun

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 British

/ vɒks /

noun

a voice or sound

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Etymology

Origin of VOX

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

Example Sentences

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In both elections the PP came on top while Vox made huge gains.

From Barron's

Jasmine previously interned at Vox Media and McKinsey & Company.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before that, he was Vox's White House reporter covering foreign policy and worked at the Atlantic Council think tank covering national security and military affairs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Guest: Joshua Keating, senior correspondent at Vox covering foreign policy.

From Slate

Across projects that also include Fastvold’s “The World to Come” and Corbet’s “The Childhood of a Leader” and “Vox Lux,” they continue to craft finely detailed historical fictions that have both a sweep and a specificity, made on budgets that are startlingly modest for what they manage to get on-screen.

From Los Angeles Times

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