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• 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
• Where Hogsett appeared, Cook could often be seen pacing in the background.
  — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2024
• During the call, dispatchers heard more gunfire in the background, and cops responded quickly to the scene.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
• Take a look back at the beloved Starbucks era when baristas would handwrite customers’ names on their drink orders as smooth jazz music played in the background.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 19 July 2024
• After the dispatcher asked her what the children in the background were saying, the woman said Justice had been playing with the gun.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 17 July 2024
• One such moment occurs when Ultraman holds the baby for the first time, and behind him the clouds part, and there’s what looks like a child’s mobile in the background.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 15 June 2024
• Hance also noticed that certain architectural features appeared in the background of many bike ads and in photos of proud customers standing with their new bikes.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 12 June 2024
• Campbell’s past—miles from Caledonian Road—lingers in the background of his prosperous London life like a submerged threat.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The following snaps feature the couple embracing with mountains in the background, and Horan also shows off her engagement ring.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
• If those names conjure images of hazy sunlight, wildflower fields and free love — with Beatles music playing in the background — that is no accident.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
• At the beginning of the clip, Priyanka filmed herself sitting on the sand outside of a resort as Malti was seen in the background playing in the water nearby.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
• Just visible in the background, chatting animatedly, was Nicole Avant.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• But even as the prospect of glory draws ever closer, there will be a buzz, a noise in the background, an inescapable reminder that real life goes on, that the summer ends, that this is not the part of the game that really matters.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• 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
• The app also has a white noise feature that will play ocean waves sounds in the background.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024