listen
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The prime minister has ruled out resigning, promising to "listen, address legitimate concerns and keep Albania moving forward".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Outside of a few million protestors that no one felt the need to listen to, most Americans were fine with the whole business, but with one caveat: They didn’t want to see it.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
"I will listen to President Zelensky carefully, but he won't be going away from Britain today empty-handed," Burnham told MPs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Listen to any interview she did going back to the 1970s and listen for the “anyway.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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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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
Anyone who listens to this single on Cyrus’ 2017 album, “Younger Now,” can hear Parton’s bubbly voice behind that of her goddaughter, nestled between samples of phone messages the legend left for the pop songstress.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
How to speak so someone listens, how to make eye contact, how to focus on what’s happening between two people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Mrs. Hameed listens calmly to Mrs. Kluck admit that Chef Elaine was fired for stealing.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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So, I listened to this thing called “The Broadcast,” which used to be called “The Fisheries Broadcast.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
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'm just exhausted really, it's a fight to get heard, to be listened to," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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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The complaint said the prompts indicate Alfozan was “interested in building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating, and remote accessing, among other things, a surreptitious audio listening and recording device.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The “Falstaffian” Gato stars in many of the book’s short, thoughtful chapters, now listening to Maria Callas on the stereo, now executing a death-defying stroll between adjacent balconies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
When listening to someone speak, for example, the brain can use the words already heard to form expectations about what is likely to follow.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
Bartok had come out to the shed and was listening to us.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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