deaf
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The robotic arms are trialled by deaf teachers to record and store signs using a bodysuit, which ZeroBionic imported for the task.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sharon Mumbe, 19, one of the pupils at the deaf school, says it gives her "hope for the future".
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
You hope you don’t work this hard at a thing for it to fall on deaf ears, and I know how microwavable music has been, but I believe the cream rises to the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
On a recent afternoon, Terekh arrived with her 12-year-old deaf dog Chuck and her bodyguards at an upscale Kyiv real-estate development that she had helped design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
She mouthed: I love you, then put her hand to her heart and pointed at me like I was deaf.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
They are "all screen and the speakers face backwards", he said, though he conceded: "We are all getting a little older and, perhaps, deafer."
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 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
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
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
The parties were as deaf as deaf could be, The judge was far the deafest of the three.
From Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by James Williams
The power of the Bible is that the deafest souls can therein hear—GOD.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
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 The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
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