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auditory

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


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Mr. James does not simply reproduce the island’s singular patois; he uses it to create abrasive auditory rhythms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

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

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

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

And then the 1970s British folk rock gives way to a less pleasant auditory landscape, as the hum appears, bringing on headaches and nosebleeds and affecting her concentration and mood, her work and family.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

He has auditory and visual hallucinations—he hears voices, sees things that aren’t there.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

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 Francis Aiden Hibbert

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 Sir Thomas Browne

He saw his neighbors' ears clogged, and he was prepared to die howling if only he could pierce those encrusted auditories.

From Mary, Mary by Padraic Colum




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