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listen

[lis-uhn] / ˈlɪs ən /


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She hoped the new Earthwatch Europe report would mean "people are going to start to listen to us".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Outside of a few million protestors that no one felt the need to listen to, most Americans were fine with the whole business, but with one caveat: They didn’t want to see it.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

“All these things still put a lot of pressure on higher education—but listen, you take it where you can,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"I will listen to President Zelensky carefully, but he won't be going away from Britain today empty-handed," Burnham told MPs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

My grandma had warned her about tampering with her gift, but she wouldn’t listen.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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 idea was to put on Krapp's Last Tape, an intense one-man play in which an ageing writer listens back to recordings of his younger self, remembering a lifetime of regrets and missed opportunities.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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

Edmond “Eddy” Porteous, one of the novel’s narrators, is an 18-year-old gay man in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1988, and like many artsy young people he expresses his personality through the music he listens to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The screecher awakens in her nest—is that what it is?—and listens to the night world.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

I knew that U2 had worked with Dolly — I’d heard the track already, and we listened to it again, having learned of her death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Pop royalty, in the form of Sir Elton John, was a special guest at the event, sitting beside the King, as they listened to a short performance from singer-songwriter Skye Newman.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

I listened to that thing over and over again, until I spilled a bottle of soap in my tape deck and ruined it.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

He had a captive audience in Cruise, who listened, Iñárritu said, like a “kid hearing a tale being told.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I should have listened better when you tried to tell me that. Aves, if you’re not having fun—that matters.”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The complaint said the prompts indicate Alfozan was “interested in building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating, and remote accessing, among other things, a surreptitious audio listening and recording device.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

“In this big moment, we’re listening to Shohei,” Roberts said, “and we’re going to support the crap out of him and believe in him, and that’s it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Economists will be listening closely to Fed officials over the next few days to see if there is any change in guidance.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

I got mixed up listening to him, because I had always believed in the God Sila.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell


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