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[aw-di-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee-] / ˈɔ dɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i- /


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When activity in either the auditory cortex or somatosensory cortex was disrupted, participants showed significantly poorer retention of the speech movements they had learned.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

Karen first found out about hearing loss when Klugo’s older sister failed a routine newborn auditory test.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

“You don’t want this for your kid,” said Marni Levine, a college counselor from Marlboro, N.J., whose now-adult daughter was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

If we aren’t receiving that auditory input, it can affect our walking speed, doctors say.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

Although neurologists are still exploring how the auditory cortex functions, they now believe that music processing is actually much more complex then initially imagined, and involves many more parts of the brain than previously thought.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The great American London built by a continent on which all the people are free; her vast populations redeemed; her churches thronged with worshipful auditories!

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

He had a loud and clear voice, and articulated his words so perfectly that he might be heard and understood at a great distance; especially as his auditories observed the most perfect silence.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

There is another scruple cast in by divinity concerning its production, much disputed in the German auditories, and with that indifferency and equality of arguments, as leave the controversy undetermined.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

It cannot be said that much harm has resulted from the full liberty permitted him, or that neglect on his part has impaired the generally attractive aspect of our theatrical auditories.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

Of this, great complaints were made by honest men: and some of the best and most conscientious preachers reproved it in the greatest auditories, as at Paul’s Cross, and before the King himself.

From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden




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