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currently transmitting; live; - used of radio and television broadcasts, to indicate that the images and sounds being picked up by cameras and microphones are being broadcast at the present moment.

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"Perhaps we can walk on the air ourselves," replied the girl.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

Then sweet music sounded on the air, and the loud tones were hushed, as in wondering silence the Fairies waited what should come.

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