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"He's our age, he's so young and knows so much. It's hard to listen to people who are old and saying the same things over and over again."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
You can watch the video below, or listen on Apple or Spotify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
It’s easy to judge, but it’s better to listen and learn from other people’s experiences.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The court will decide exactly how closely judges are required to listen to guidelines of the United States Sentencing Commission over how long a convicted defendant can be jailed for.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026
“This wheel is a hundred years old. It always seems funny to watch TV or listen to a podcast while working on an antique.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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To pass the time, Mauri surfs YouTube, listens to music or stand-up comedy, or watches golf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Zamorano can play the ukulele, listens to music created years ago and doesn’t pay attention to what others think.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The production team unearthed reel-to-reel recordings of that performance more than 40 years ago, and they will be woven into the new production as his character listens back to echoes of his younger self.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Anyone who listens to this single on Cyrus’ 2017 album, “Younger Now,” can hear Parton’s bubbly voice behind that of her goddaughter, nestled between samples of phone messages the legend left for the pop songstress.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
If you’re keeping up, that means they don’t just have a god who listens or a god who speaks, but a god who puts his finger in the dirt and swirls it.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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"It was emotionally draining, not to be listened to, not to be heard," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The survivor later said in a statement "nobody ever listened to me" and that the police who interviewed her had spoken to her "like a child".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
She married Bill Darrid, a writer-producer, and we moved into a three-bedroom farmhouse in Westport, Conn. I finally had a father who listened to me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
So, I listened to this thing called “The Broadcast,” which used to be called “The Fisheries Broadcast.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
He’d been trying to tell me, but I hadn’t listened.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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“Oh, and what’s some new popular music I should be listening to?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Lula "is someone you can tell is always open to listening, to hearing criticism -- obviously constructive criticism," Ana Elisa told AFP at a park in Divinopolis, her hometown in southeastern Brazil.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
He appeared to be listening attentively and hardly moved his position throughout.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
When listening to someone speak, for example, the brain can use the words already heard to form expectations about what is likely to follow.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
We used to listen to the radio every evening, Mutti and I. All through the war we had done this, listening for news from the particular battlefront where we thought Papi was fighting.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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