deaf
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Early Saturday morning however, he was woken up by a video call from his elderly parents -- who are both deaf -- and rushed back to help.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
There’s a lack of programs — we need more therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors who are versed in helping people who are deaf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
About 1,300 members of the public joined a search to find Noah, who police said was non-verbal, partially deaf and had been undergoing an assessment for autism.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
By now long since deaf, he asked if they were booing him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Last I heard, no one’s been deaf for two hundred years.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
As it dawns on her how dangerous and unwieldy the company she wants to inherit actually is, Shiv no longer tries to make herself useful to her dad — and Logan’s ears turn deafer.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
“I’m getting more deafer and my wife is getting more louder,” he said with a laugh.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
This suggests a co-evolutionary struggle in which the mother’s body becomes deafer as the offspring becomes louder.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2011
He was aware of being able to see increasingly clearly, and as I've got deafer I've noticed that I'm using my eyes better.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2010
Old Gamgee did not look much older, but he was a little deafer.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
She was deaf as a post, - as said before -And as deaf as twenty similes more,Including the adder, that deafest of snakes,Which never hears the coil it makes.
From Playful Poems by Henry Morley
There are folks about town—to name no names— Who much resemble that deafest of Dames!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
When Solomon Flint returned home that night he found Miss Lillycrop seated beside old Mrs Flint, shouting into her deafest ear.
From Post Haste by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Wild laughter, and high-pitched voices singing many favorite nursery airs and school-room songs made noise enough to reach the ears even of the deafest.
From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade
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