deaf
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But whenever I hear it now, I kind of turn a deaf ear to it, if that’s possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Before foreign stocks emerged from their coma last year, calls to look abroad mostly fell on deaf ears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Critics panned it as tone deaf and uncreative, and it was cancelled after two seasons.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Elsewhere, the award for best drama went to ITV's Code of Silence, which starred Rose Ayling-Ellis as a deaf woman who helps police with her lip reading skills.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Thornton’s doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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
They are "all screen and the speakers face backwards", he said, though he conceded: "We are all getting a little older and, perhaps, deafer."
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 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
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
The jackal is a social kind of dog, and a pack of hungry or excited jackals can howl in notes fit to pierce the ears of the deafest.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam
The parties were as deaf as deaf could be, The judge was far the deafest of the three.
From Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by Williams, James
But then, what else does Hopeful ding Into the deafest ear except—hope, hope's the thing?
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
And they will make such an outcry over their discovery, that their words will reach the most remote corners and penetrate the deafest ears.
From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)
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