aural
Example Sentences
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His gently oddball vision of loner heroics has plenty of terror-steeped imagery to go with the referential sound design’s aural innocence of antiquated bloops, blurps and synthetic tones.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026
The versions narrated by Mr. Dale and Mr. Fry are best for car journeys, because with fewer aural elements they’ll be easier to hear over the noises of the road.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Stone’s iPad, with its open sonic complexity, created a sense of space, a roomy aural soundscape in which jazz and butoh became elements not egos, not larger than life, just more life, the merrier.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Sound mixer Simon Hayes said the live singing shifts further past just the aural experience attached to their performances.
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2025
Note that the rhyme itself is not from West Africa, but it is the process of aural transmission itself that is one of the main goals of the lesson.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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