How to Use compact disc in a Sentence
compact disc
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The sound of the vinyl trumps the sound of a compact disc or cassette any day.
—Gabrielle Bunton, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2021
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Think about what iPods did to compact discs, and what the iPhone did to the BlackBerry.
—Samantha Masunaga, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
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One of the few titles to be getting a compact disc as well as vinyl edition for the day.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
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This year, for the first time since…I was in college…vinyl may outsell compact discs.
—Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
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At times, record players, records, cassettes and compact discs were sold.
—Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2019
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Sony went on to develop the compact disc along with Philips PHG , and that product once again changed the face of the music business.
—Bobby Owsinski, Forbes, 30 May 2021
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The store has been selling and collecting music long enough to see vinyl eclipsed by the compact disc, and then reborn.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 3 Dec. 2019
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The rise in popularity of the compact disc made the 1990s one of the most profitable decades for recorded music.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2022
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The compact disc, whose sales have been declining for years, looks to be finally ditched by Best Buy.
—Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2018
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First 50 to arrive get compact disc of King square dance album and instruction book.
—Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 1 Sep. 2017
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Taylor said in the motion that prosecutors provided copies of the video on both a flash drive and a compact disc.
—Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 9 May 2023
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The 1997 game arrived with the aplomb of a late-era Beatles album, packaged in all white and arriving on three compact discs.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
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This vinyl followup promises to take advantage of the same restorative care that made the compact disc of a few years back such an instant collectible.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
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Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
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Which prompts the question: As with 78 rpm records and 8-track tapes before them, does the news further the compact disc's march toward redundancy?
—Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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Best Buy will pull compact discs from their stores by July 1, according to Billboard.
—William Thornton, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
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The most striking fact about latter-day discussions about sound quality and streaming may be just how far ahead of its time the compact disc was.
—Mark Richardson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
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The slaying happened in the course of the theft of two shotguns, two rifle, one sword, 29 compact discs and an undetermined amount of cash, according to court records.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 27 Feb. 2020
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But back in the compact disc era, that disappointment usually cost about $13.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 19 Aug. 2022
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When young people stopped buying compact discs, Tower was caught with heavy debts and slumped into liquidation at the end of 2006.
—James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
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Police told Hartley that the envelope contained an unsigned card along with a compact disc.
—Gordon Rago, baltimoresun.com, 6 July 2018
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Dawson, while walking the aisles, also gave them a little souvenir, in the form of guitar picks and compact discs, to commemorate their flight.
—Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2017
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The business of selling vinyl albums, in the midst of an unexpected , could have been facing its biggest existential threat since the rise of the compact disc.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2020
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But out of the gate, the Spice Girls’ arsenal included a weapon even more powerful than warehouses full of gleaming compact discs.
—New York Times, 19 July 2019
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Prizes are available to patrons for having read or listened to a qualifying number of books or compact discs.
—Megann Horstead, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
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Whereas most camp sets nest together in a large cylindrical shape, this set includes a large pot, kettle and pan that nest inside of each other to form a slim, compact disc.
—Sara Tane, goodhousekeeping.com, 16 May 2023
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Data was sent out to scientists in boxes and boxes of compact discs, and Herrick recalled that getting a single image to load on a screen could take a good 10 seconds.
—Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
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Since the early 2000s, Pearl Jam has released official bootlegs of nearly all of the band’s concerts, either on compact disc or digital download.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
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Much like their music industry debut, which, Mr. Black noted, will be released as a double compact disc.
—New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
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Other formats besides LPs are included in the Luminate study, of course, and for once, almost nothing was down from the previous year — not even compact discs.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 12 July 2023
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