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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A kind of tall cardboard box in which cassette tapes were originally packaged for retail display to discourage theft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From the resemblance to the boxes in which spaghetti is sold.
