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headphone

[hed-fohn] / ˈhɛdˌfoʊn /
NOUN
headphones
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I’m like, “I have a headphone in my ear and I’m really busy working. You’re kind of bugging me right now.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 2026

Right now, your iPhone 5 is small, slow and still blessed with a headphone jack.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

To improve this, Dr Alexander suggests reducing headphone use time and using the transparency mode which can amplify the background noise as well as wearing headphones that don't completely occlude or block the ears.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2025

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to create just such a "sound bubble."

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2024

The jack end of my headphone set had fallen out of my pocket.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

For example, it says the facility doesn’t provide headphones for tablets, making private phone calls — including privileged calls with attorneys — impossible unless the detainee can afford to purchase headphones from the commissary.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

To investigate how different brain regions contribute to speech learning, the researchers first altered participants' speech in real time and played the modified speech back through headphones.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

Fidgets, weighted blankets, sensory dens and noise-cancelling headphones were on tap, as well as activities including chess and dominoes.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

To pressure victims into giving up their account information, they tell them they need to log in immediately before their points expire to claim such things as free headphones or Apple Watches.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Andrea handed him headphones and turned on the television.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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