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• The videos, due April 19, must use the song in the background.
  — Variety, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024
• Nabil could hear the pounding of bombs in the background.
  — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• Both pointed to a pier in the background of the video and said the city's beach doesn't have a pier.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• And growing up in news, your job was to be in the background.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• All this happening to the sounds of war in the background.
  — Venya Brykalin, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
• The non-diegetic theme song plays in the background one last time.
  — Delia Casadei, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
• Liselotte, who is 70 years old, still runs the business in the background, though.
  — Yolanda Evans, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
• Screaming could be heard in the background of nearly all the calls.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 May 2023
• The shades were drawn; a lava lamp bubbled in the background.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• New warning signs emerge in the background of the Maine gunman.
  — Richie Duchon, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Then the ‘Tinsley Ranch’ has the ovals and some neutral oak barrels to show the wood in the background.
  — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• That distinctly warm breeze, and the faint sound of an ice cream truck in the background?
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
• Snyder largely has been in the background for the last two years.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• Seebach said in the video, in which a tour boat full of people can be seen in the background.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
• But this time, with the war in the background, there are new rules to the game, and both Putin and the Russian public know them.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
• There’s a sense of wartime in the background, and a sense of inevitability.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
• And there were a few more things that needed to happen in the background in setting up the next arc of the book.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
• The app also has a white noise feature that will play ocean waves sounds in the background.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023
• The calf swam up in the background, just as Iliya was preparing to head back to the surface to take a breath.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the body camera footage, a cluster of blue balloons tied to a street pole float in the background.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
• In the video, Lipa and her dancers dance the day away by and in a giant pool with a city skyline in the background.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
• And Curtis Robinson has toiled in the background for years.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
• Maher announced, as the former NFL star laughed and the rest of her team screamed with joy in the background.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 28 July 2024
• The stage was bare, except for a mirror in the background that served as a dancing tool.
  — Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• Gunfire and screaming could be heard in the background.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2023
• In the three photos, Hayek is seen posing in front of gorgeous red rocks in the background.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
• There’s quite a lot in the background of how Crunchyroll came to be as a company.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
• To the left of the eagle, a coyote appears to skulk in the background, waiting for its turn with the carcass.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
• In the following clip, the spotlight is on Bailey as others in the restaurant clap and laugh in the background.
  — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 25 Nov. 2024
• But even with her talent on full display, the funniest bits take place in the background.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024