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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
In Southern California, fans can listen to the game on 640 AM and 103.9 FM.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 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
Vlasenko would listen intently for their sounds and try to sneak a glance to spot them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The cortex is where you think, remember, learn, imagine, read, speak, listen, and dream.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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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
She often talks faster than I can listen, and listens faster than I can talk, grasping my meaning before I finish a sentence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
City Hall needs someone who listens and is “willing to grow,” said Marlene Fonseca, who heads the Engineers and Architects Assn., a union that endorsed Raman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
"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
I like that when I’m talking to her, she looks me in the eyes and really listens.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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At school, Mr. Coben listened in raptures as a favorite teacher read aloud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 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
"There's been a subtlety in the smartness of women on display here, alongside the frustration of not always being listened to in the game," says Jamieson.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Although, as I listened to his big booming laugh fill the cavernous room, it wasn’t hard to see why.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Vlasenko kept silent, so that the Russians, if they were listening in, would think him dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"Postnatal depression can happen to anyone and this is why the veil of shame needs to come down, through education or through listening to people," said Laura.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Finally, residents of Linton-on-Ouse in north Yorkshire stare down the barrel of a lens on the front page of the Daily Express, under the headline: "You are not listening!"
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
It’s a long way off from where Johanningmeier grew up in Colorado, as a “typical angsty and lonely teen” manning a Hayley Williams stan page and listening to metalcore bands like Bring Me the Horizon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
How long we clung together, listening, I do not know.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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