hear
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"That was a traumatic experience in my life and when I hear the flash of a camera it makes me revisit that, in a way."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I hear bands with new records out, and they’re horrible,” Benante says, squinting his eyes and grimacing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
That is the sort of information a patient should hear from their physician, who can break the news gently, and provide context and prognosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"We usually hear about telescopes working separately, but this confirmation was possible only by using multiple telescopes together," Bernardi said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
She wasn’t willing to hear me out at all.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
“There’s something that’s really important that everybody hears from Anthropic, and I think the president has said this many, many times: The United States needs to stay in the lead on AI,” Heck said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
When Lucy* puts her child to bed, she hears a constant humming.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mr. Power gives us some lines of Barrett Browning’s poem, in which he hears echoes of the work that inspired it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Letsch, the elder-law attorney in Iowa, said she often hears from families trying to untangle messes with farms because they’ve been given bad advice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Once he hears the Clue Crew is on the case, he'll definitely want our help!"
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
Radio carbon dating found the boy dated from any time between 1655 and the start of the nuclear era 300 years later, the coroner heard.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But if you are an AI company about to launch an IPO, you say that very soon you will cure cancers, produce music only angels have heard, solve equations that have bedeviled mankind for millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Regents heard that math performance is the exception to otherwise strong academic results among first-year students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
From the other side of the living room, he heard a blast.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’d lived in the city of Muskogee his whole life and had never heard of it.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Fans, tired of hearing about “new” features they’ve been using for years, are spreading conspiracy theories about the new phone and chiding potential defectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
At a hearing in Caernarfon to establish whether it was treasure, north west Wales deputy coroner Sarah Riley described the finding as "absolutely stunning".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Collins stood outside for several agonizing minutes, hearing their muffled voices.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Nine out of 10 people who request a restraining order do not have a lawyer to help them through the process of preparing for a hearing, according to court data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
On and on the woman’s voice babbled, the man at my side hearing everything.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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