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• v  insulate against noise
  Proust had his apartment soundproofed
• s  impervious to, or not penetrable by, sound
  a soundproof room

• On the flat-screen televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 .
• Although the inmates are isolated in gloomy one-man cells the size of a small bathroom at least 23 hours a day, their chambers aren't soundproof.
• For nearly two years Chou worked as a $600-a-song contract composer and rarely left that seventh-floor soundproof chamber where he cranked out melodies for less-talented, better .

News & Articles

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• Homeowner prefers the sound of silence
  Q My neighborhood is getting loud and noisy at night. Are there ways to soundproof a house? Are there experts available?
  June 14, 2013 - Pioneer Press

Quotes

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• David Bartlett in Tasmania Mercury
  We recognised noise was an issue for some in the surrounding areas,Mr Bartlett said. "We have had the architects walking around the areas while the gigs have been going on and asked them to make recommendations to soundproof the venue."
• Tom Shales in Scoop.co.nz
  As Tom Shales wrote in the Washington Post: "The debate had the aura of an almost meaningless ritual being conducted in a soundproof room while outside, panic and calamity were spreading like giant cracks in the earth. The candidates seemed...
• Vin Diesel in Press-Enterprise
  Once you got Judi Dench, it just meant that you had to stay committed to making the script and each moment as soundproof as possible,Diesel said. "Just because it's such a luxury, and for me a dream, and such a coup for the picture to have...