hear
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I delivered the words every deployed sailor and Marine longs to hear: “You have delivered a performance for the ages, and now you are going home.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Education Secretary Lucy Powell said she was "deeply shocked and saddened" to hear about the death and she urged people to "remember there are real people with loved ones involved".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
When older generations describe Gen Z as drinking less, they often seem to hear less interested.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In Episode 1, you’ll hear how Gorsuch’s worldview was shaped by his iconoclastic mother, his reaction to life on a liberal college campus, and by young conservative movements of the 1980s.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
From Belle’s throat, I feel a rippling vibration and hear a sound I’ve never heard before.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
On business trips to Europe, he sometimes hears complaints about China’s export strength.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Fasulo says he frequently hears from followers who replaced the wrong parts on their cars after taking flawed advice from a chatbot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Cosmic Mother hears your heart, and Her timing is always perfect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Pett says the organisation hears most often from young people, women and those identifying as LGBTQ, who report being "less likely to feel listened to by healthcare professionals than others".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
I look over at Sneaky, and I hope he hears what I’m telling him, even though I don’t say a thing.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
It will decide if words uttered on the evening news are something the public shouldn’t have heard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The man is lost.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
And he’s heard they’re going to do something about it soon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
When she heard explosions, she ran to her father and asked what was happening, he said, but he did not have the heart to tell her, saying they were fireworks for a wedding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
She’d heard about an American Jesuit stranded at Ateneo de Manila University, and she is determined to find him.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Jane Swanson, a board member of Mothers for Peace, waits to speak during public comment following a hearing for extending the operation of Diablo on July 30.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
I crisscrossed the country to sit down with millionaires and billionaires for The WSJ Money Interview, hearing about how the ultrasuccessful make, spend and grow their money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Other days I've imagined hearing her drinking water and her footsteps.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The 38-year-old craftsman from Tangiers dropped everything to head to the border town of Fnideq after hearing via social media that the frontier was open.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Angela considered telling Monique that if Sky Trails had banned crash from their employees’ vocabulary, that maybe passengers should be protected from hearing pilot error as well.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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