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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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

Brain implants will provide all the auditory and visual stimulation needed to simulate any form of live entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

Another aspect of the auditory cortex’s function is how it groups or perceives musical information.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

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

But the cloister-pupil was not thinking of the cool auditories of his monastery.

From Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Its future auditories will be the generations of men, as they rise up before it and gather round it’ Webster.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various

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




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