listen

I can listen, I can build, I can take you on a journey, I can make you think this is a bad joke, but it’s actually a good joke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Sirianni and Quinn now have to listen to a week’s worth of mocking from laypeople, podcasters, and worst of all, sports columnists at financial newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"We need to listen to the demands of young people and the most vulnerable," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

"Did anyone listen to us? No, no-one did."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

I had to strain to listen but they were chanting excitedly.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

To pass the time, Mauri surfs YouTube, listens to music or stand-up comedy, or watches golf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Zamorano can play the ukulele, listens to music created years ago and doesn’t pay attention to what others think.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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

“What do you mean, she only listens to me?”

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

She married Bill Darrid, a writer-producer, and we moved into a three-bedroom farmhouse in Westport, Conn. I finally had a father who listened to me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Assistant coroner Briony Ballard listened to evidence at London Inner South Coroner's Court before publishing a narrative conclusion on Mia's death.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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

I don’t remember what he said, but I vividly recall how he made me feel: worthy of his attention, valued, listened to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Nim listened hard so that she could remember the stories forever, after Alex left, and tried not to think about when that would happen.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

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

“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

If people are laughing, they’re also agreeing, listening, emoting, caring; it’s my favorite thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

She’s an interloper among established thespians, a woman in her late 50s who has only just begun listening to the little voice inside her, the one begging her to step outside her comfort zone.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

But Duane was not listening to that voice, even though he’d known and trusted that voice for as long as he could remember.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el