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auditory

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


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The next time I sit through another auditory gauntlet on the number 29, I will keep that in mind.

From BBC Aug. 5, 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

"When you stimulate these serotonergic neurons, we can see that it stimulates activity in the auditory region in the brain," Trussell said.

From Science Daily May 15, 2026

The visual cortex in your brain is activated when your auditory cortex is stimulated.”

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Let us, then, contemplate a little closer the different kinds of concerts—their features and their character—their performers and their auditories.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 by Robert Chambers

These Lectures, in their original form, were delivered at Geneva, and afterwards at Lausanne, before two auditories which together numbered about two thousand five hundred men.

From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Henry Downton

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 T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

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 Dutton Cook

His irresistible gestures gave impulse to his plebeian auditories.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde




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