deaf
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Deaf artist Cathy Mager, who set up Spectroscope in 2022 to create radical public installations by deaf and disabled people, said the city is lucky to have cultural institutions who value inclusion.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Most arts organisations are committed to accessibility but there's a difference between access and showing work by deaf and disabled people," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
By now long since deaf, he asked if they were booing him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
After meeting with doctors, audiologists, speech therapists and the families of other deaf children, Pride’s parents made a series of decisions that would change the course of his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
“I told you to swim clear. Are all Assistant Pig-Keepers deaf as well as stubborn?”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
As it dawns on her how dangerous and unwieldy the company she wants to inherit actually is, Shiv no longer tries to make herself useful to her dad — and Logan’s ears turn deafer.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
“I’m getting more deafer and my wife is getting more louder,” he said with a laugh.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
This suggests a co-evolutionary struggle in which the mother’s body becomes deafer as the offspring becomes louder.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2011
He was aware of being able to see increasingly clearly, and as I've got deafer I've noticed that I'm using my eyes better.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2010
Old Gamgee did not look much older, but he was a little deafer.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Of all old women hard of hearing, The deafest, sure, was Dame Eleanor Spearing!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Genius hovers with his sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think not, bring the deafest old post of your acquaintance.
From Sisters by Ada Cambridge
To a piteous plea to remain and enjoy the old man's wealth, he turned the deafest of ears.
From Trifles for the Christmas Holidays by H. S. Armstrong
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