listen
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It is their role to listen and be kind when you share details about your lives.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
It’s right next to you, wherever you are, if you only listen for it.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
Meta has been marketing smart glasses as a way to listen to audio, take phone calls, capture video and talk to its AI assistant without having to whip out a smartphone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
They are not the only ones to revamp their squad but if you listen to De Zerbi, after about five years they might come good.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
I thought now that she was bored and might just be pretending to listen.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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"Imagine a grandfather who silently embraces you every day, listens to you, and has always been strong and full of life," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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
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
In fact, I was so enchanted by Oberst’s melodies it took me a few listens to realize how shallow I found his lyrics.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2008
Am I already turning into a jerky teenager who never listens?
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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"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
Francesca said the justice system had let a lot of people down, including Karol's five children, the wider family and the jury at the trial who listened to "thorough, onerous and sometimes difficult evidence".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
In person Friday morning, El-Sayed mostly stood there and listened.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
While in China, he listened to American bebop and jazz on the radio and watched American films at the movie theater owned by his best friend’s father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
He did not see the looks of wonder on their faces as they listened to Jonn's words.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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He said he was working out how to contribute in a way that would help "victims of these terrible times - and listening and learning, because I do not know enough".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
And he’s around in this town where nobody’s listening to him half the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
If you each take turns listening to each other’s problems ad nauseum, no one wins.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
However, listening to Saylor make his sales pitch to the men filling the expo hall, I understood why people kept giving him money.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
I watched him for a moment, listening to the livid swiff, swiff, swiff of the broom.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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