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auditory

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


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Because electric vehicles don't have the auditory cues and vibrations from the engine that we're used to, which indicate when the car is accelerating, this could trigger motion sickness, Di Giulio says.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

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

The primary auditory cortex is one of the oldest and first developed areas of the human brain, suggesting that recognizing timbre is an extremely important function in human evolution.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

At the start these ladies delivered their message to women only, but by-and-bye as the fame of their eloquence spread men began to appear among their auditories.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

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

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

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 had a loud and clear voice, and articulated his words so perfectly that he might be heard and understood at a great distance; especially as his auditories observed the most perfect silence.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich


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