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In what appeared to be a rebuke of Milei's combative style and language, the Pope said strengthening democracy required a "willingness to listen" and the "careful use of words".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Guests listen to Madeline Walters read an essay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Jerry treats each song as a poem and doesn’t listen to the music until after the pair has finished their analysis.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
It is arrogant to believe you know more than the market, and you’d be a fool to listen to a pundit who says he does.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
I was stretched out with an ear applied to the floor, trying to listen in on the school board meeting below.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Its audience reach is estimated between 124,000 to 186,000 monthly listens, Podchaser said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Scrolling through a "relaxing jazz piano playlist" with over 370,000 saves on Spotify, he spots that top featured artists that rack up hundreds of thousands of monthly listens have unverified accounts.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
He makes crawfish, listens to Frankie Beverly and Maze, and doesn’t ingratiate himself with the sports media machine, largely a white institutional space.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
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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Raman listened attentively as, one by one, council members sitting around the horseshoe offered their olive branches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
He listened for engines, and by now he could distinguish between the sounds even of similar vehicles such as quad bikes and motorcycles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Another shared grievance is the widespread feeling of not being listened to, which is leading to an increasing "distance" and "dissociation" between ordinary people and the state, said Pleyers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
A coroner ruled that her family's concerns about her worsening condition were not listened to and she would probably have survived had she been moved to intensive care earlier.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
She even laid her ear on my chest and listened to my heart beat.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Samuel says for parents struggling to understand therapy speak, "listening is your biggest tool to bridge the divide".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Senate Democrats recently held 95 listening sessions on establishing universal long-term-care coverage.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
During the Mass, Leo described the Christian family as "a pillar" amid the uncertainties of modern life and urged parents to pass on the faith through simple acts such as prayer, forgiveness and mutual listening.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Vlasenko kept silent, so that the Russians, if they were listening in, would think him dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
I remember Mutti would sometimes hum along with her songs when we were listening to them.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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