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auditory

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


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Instead of highlighting motor regions as the main driver of speech learning, the research suggests that auditory and somatosensory systems are critical for acquiring and retaining new speech patterns.

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

They then measured how the mice responded using a modified auditory startle test.

From Science Daily May 15, 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

“I’m speaking very loudly, and you’re only three feet away. The elementary physics of sound waves assures me that you are receiving my auditory signals.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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 Colum, Padraic

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 Chambers, Robert

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 Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

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 Downton, Henry

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




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