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headphone

[hed-fohn] / ˈhɛdˌfoʊn /
NOUN
headphones
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Surveys suggest that many do find this modern phenomenon - known as loudcasting, sodcasting, or headphone dodging - similarly frustrating.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

To solve the problem, they created a square-shaped device that could plug into a smartphone’s headphone jack and read credit cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

Dre selling his headphone company Beats Electronics to Apple to become hip-hop’s first billionaire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

The team's artificial intelligence algorithms combined with a headphone prototype allow the wearer to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

Radios were innocuous, being still in the catwhisker and headphone stage, and featuring such stimulating programs as the Arlington Time Signals.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The production’s novelty: Audience members wear headphones, so we hear Lucas’s voice more intimately, and also the creaks and thumps and eerie noises that enhance the chilling tale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

She described seeing Chapman by the tiger enclosure "pacing around with his headphones in".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A furious Quinn spiked his fancy headphones into the mud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Another passenger, Zvika Meness, told Israeli public broadcaster Kan he helped overpower the attacker, and the passenger and two others "tied him up with his own zip ties and with the multimedia headphones".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Ray handed me the headphones and moved toward the prow of the boat, steadying himself against the corner of the wheelhouse.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen


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