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After meeting with doctors, audiologists, speech therapists and the families of other deaf children, Pride’s parents made a series of decisions that would change the course of his life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The first deaf player to excel in the major leagues was Billy “Dummy” Hoy, an outfielder who debuted for the Washington Nationals in 1888.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

In a school for the deaf in Kenya, children signed their excitement as a team demonstrated how a robotic arm could revolutionise their studies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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

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

But at the lang an' last the auld man catched them at it, an' he was juist the man to let them hear aboot it on the deafest side o' their heids.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Of all old women hard of hearing, The deafest, sure, was Dame Eleanor Spearing!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

And they will make such an outcry over their discovery, that their words will reach the most remote corners and penetrate the deafest ears.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway