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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 won't go to COP where we already know they won’t listen to us, while my village here is burning," she said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
And as I sit and listen to her, I realize something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
I need her to say something again, in a lower register, so I can listen more carefully.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
If the above sounds familiar, then you might already be a Wholigan — someone who routinely listens to the long-running celebrity podcast “Who? Weekly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 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
He listens but can’t hear her breathe, so he puts his head to her chest, listening for a heartbeat.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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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
She built houses and listened to speakers in Cuba.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Tiamat closed her eyes and listened while he read from the book.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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"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
Vlasenko kept silent, so that the Russians, if they were listening in, would think him dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"This win, this win is for every Texan who's ever wondered if anyone is listening," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
“I do think that being in constant engagement with humans on the podcast or listening intently or empathetically is what acting is all about,” Maron said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
I did as I was told, listening to the squeak of hangers on the rack while Miss Lacey riffled through the clothes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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