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Athletes compete in enormous stadiums with piped-in music and high-definition scoreboards.

My World Wrestling Revelation Dhani Jones 2011

There were a few teletype machines chugging way faintly in the rear, but it dawned on me that the clackety-clack background sounds that you heard on TV were piped-in sound effects.

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"There's also a drop in crime in every other major and minor city, so just because somebody tries something and you see a drop in crime, it doesn't mean it necessarily caused it," Ms. Dugan says of Lancaster's piped-in birds.

A California City Is Into Tweeting—Chirping, Actually—in a Big Way John Letzing 2012

On the first Tuesday of the new year, personal trainer Monica Vazquez was helping a client stretch when she heard the blare of Latin hip-hop competing with the piped-in music at the Manhattan gym.

New Year's Resolutions Have Gym-Goers Getting Pretty Exercised Dana Mattioli 2011

I wished there was some sort of piped-in music, something other than this ominous quiet.

Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

Athletes compete in enormous stadiums with piped-in music and high-definition scoreboards.

My World Wrestling Revelation Dhani Jones 2011

The equipment they use is often quite similar, except that restaurants typically rely on piped-in natural gas to heat their fryers and griddles, while trucks and carts use tanks of propane.

Are food carts environmentally superior to restaurants? Nina Shen Rastogi 2010

The equipment they use is often quite similar, except that restaurants typically rely on piped-in natural gas to heat their fryers and griddles, while trucks and carts use tanks of propane.

Are food carts environmentally superior to restaurants? Nina Shen Rastogi 2010

Even the coffee maker with piped-in water is hidden by a door.

A riverfront retreat, built with the long view Nancy McKeon 2010

I wished there was some sort of piped-in music, something other than this ominous quiet.

Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011