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Nurses had to listen to all those alarms and assess them, adding to alarm fatigue and potentially making it harder to respond to actual patient deterioration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Being able to listen to various attempts as the band and producer George Martin build “I’m Looking Through You” from the ground up, for example, is a wonder to behold.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
I’m never too busy to listen to a reader’s story.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Former staff previously told BBC Newsbeat the development process had "no coherent direction" and accused senior managers of failing to listen to their concerns.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Mama wouldn’t listen to that kind of talk at all.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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He listens to them, as they navigate their complicated feelings, closely tracking the way their intersecting paths lead them toward incremental revelation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The influencer said when people find out that she listens to Owens, they often mock her and call her a conspiracy theorist.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
How to speak so someone listens, how to make eye contact, how to focus on what’s happening between two people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
By the end of last year, EsDeeKid's monthly listens on Spotify had "skyrocketed", external, which Dazed said had "half of Europe rapping in his distinctive scouse accent".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Besides the fact that deep down he’s a terrible person, he listens to the worst music—nineties heavy metal.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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As I was starting to work on this album, I listened to the Sundays, the Cardigans, and every single record that Prince ever made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
People sitting on the pavement hugged their knees, dropping their heads as they listened to the pope's voice echo across the Champs Elysees.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, I listened to my own interpretation earpiece and held up my phone to it as an audio recorder to capture the quotes—probably the only person in the crowd doing so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"If I'd had the money or if I hadn't listened to the spin on TikTok, I probably would have gone somewhere closer to home and not rushed into it," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
He called the preacher, who listened to the story and let my pa stay at his place for a while.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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She said "the right people were listening" to her campaign.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
I listened to those folk bits and thought: Here’s someone who grew up listening to Los Jaivas and Inti-Illimani.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Nearly four years after the public launch of ChatGPT, the AI boom is still going, the bulls are still dancing, and investors are listening for any sign that the music is about to stop playing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Combating this risk involves listening to your gut, she added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Chase swam in widening circles for six minutes, shouting Rashawn’s name, listening, then shouting again, ignoring the pain in his shoulder.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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