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"microphone" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often mike (4 letters).
Definitions
device for converting sound waves into electrical energy
Word origin
From micro- + -phone.
Used in a sentence
“Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.”
“It rained hard through most of Roosevelt's Second Inaugural. Audio tape recordings of the speech feature the tattoo of the rain on Roosevelt's microphone[…]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer6 curated clues
01“Stage voice pickup”10 letters
02“Podcaster's tool”10 letters
03“Singer's stage device”10 letters
04“Stage singer's device”10 letters
05“Stage voice amplifier”10 letters
06“Voice pickup onstage”10 letters
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