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: produced by or as if by means of a stereotype
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Examples of stereo in a Sentence
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Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Granted, niceties like massaging front seats and a booming 19-speaker McIntosh surround-sound stereo are beyond what the Passport offers.
—Nick Kurczewski, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
To find out what time a particular bar will start blasting Priest at deafening volumes, just phone them up and pray the bartender can hear you over the stereo.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
Nifty matching switchgear controls the roll-up rear window and exhaust cutout, and the stereo might look antique but actually runs Bluetooth connectivity through the analog buttons.
—Michael Van Runkle, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
What about increasing stereo width without sounding gimmicky?
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
Perhaps the best known of them is musician and businessman Daisuke Inoue, whose 8 Juke machine — invented in 1971, and also based on a car stereo — is credited with helping commercialize karaoke.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
There is nothing like vinyl on big home stereo speakers that can fill a room with sound.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
Ali and his comrades burst through the curtain as Turkmen music blared on the stereo.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
And again, both Barron's shop, which is just chock-full of inventory like rings and watches and belt buckles and stereo equipment, pawn shops across the country are seeing something similar.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
Photo : Barrett-Jackson The cockpit includes ice-cold Vintage Air and an equally cool AM/FM Bluetooth stereo.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
An increasing number of new songs released today are already available in both Dolby Atmos and stereo.
—Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2024
Apart from these four modes, Mastering Assistant exposes a few controls such as a loudness adjustment, an exciter for more top-end saturation, and a stereo spread knob.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
The Riptide features not one, but two distinct voicings for each effect, all delivered in vibrant stereo.
—Ron Hart, SPIN, 22 Nov. 2023
The stereo speakers built into the Clarity Max screens are perhaps the weak point of the product because they are limited to an output of 5W per channel, which wouldn’t be enough for use in a meeting room.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Craft also wisely employs Bernie Grundman, who earned a 2019 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award for his stellar achievements with audio equalization, compression, sound limiting, stereo enhancement and lacquer cutting.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
Noun
The call-masking feature only works if music is playing on the stereo.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Granted, niceties like massaging front seats and a booming 19-speaker McIntosh surround-sound stereo are beyond what the Passport offers.
—Nick Kurczewski, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
To find out what time a particular bar will start blasting Priest at deafening volumes, just phone them up and pray the bartender can hear you over the stereo.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
Nifty matching switchgear controls the roll-up rear window and exhaust cutout, and the stereo might look antique but actually runs Bluetooth connectivity through the analog buttons.
—Michael Van Runkle, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
What about increasing stereo width without sounding gimmicky?
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
Perhaps the best known of them is musician and businessman Daisuke Inoue, whose 8 Juke machine — invented in 1971, and also based on a car stereo — is credited with helping commercialize karaoke.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
There is nothing like vinyl on big home stereo speakers that can fill a room with sound.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
Ali and his comrades burst through the curtain as Turkmen music blared on the stereo.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Adjective
Share [Findings] Scientists trained subjects to exercise control over a single neuron, linked the hippocampus to regret, and concluded that humans smell in stereo.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
And again, both Barron's shop, which is just chock-full of inventory like rings and watches and belt buckles and stereo equipment, pawn shops across the country are seeing something similar.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
Photo : Barrett-Jackson The cockpit includes ice-cold Vintage Air and an equally cool AM/FM Bluetooth stereo.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
An increasing number of new songs released today are already available in both Dolby Atmos and stereo.
—Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2024
Apart from these four modes, Mastering Assistant exposes a few controls such as a loudness adjustment, an exciter for more top-end saturation, and a stereo spread knob.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
The Riptide features not one, but two distinct voicings for each effect, all delivered in vibrant stereo.
—Ron Hart, SPIN, 22 Nov. 2023
The stereo speakers built into the Clarity Max screens are perhaps the weak point of the product because they are limited to an output of 5W per channel, which wouldn’t be enough for use in a meeting room.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Craft also wisely employs Bernie Grundman, who earned a 2019 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award for his stellar achievements with audio equalization, compression, sound limiting, stereo enhancement and lacquer cutting.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
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“Stereo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stereo. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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stereo
1 of 2 noun
ste·reo
ˈster-ē-ˌō 
ˈstir-
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: stereophonic reproduction
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: a stereophonic sound system
stereo
2 of 2 adjective1
: of or relating to the seeing of objects in three dimensions
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