deaf
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Their creative director, Jennifer Bates, describes it as "a significant moment" for the Scottish theatre landscape, integrating deaf and hearing cast and crew.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Kaylee helped to improve understanding, challenge misconceptions, and prove there are no limits to what people who are deaf or have hearing loss can achieve."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“I was so excited. She’s a young deaf girl, just like many others out there. And this journey that she’s going on is just going to be so amazing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The actress, who is deaf, played the major role of "Jia" in "Godzilla v Kong" and the sequel "Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
He shouted at her like she was deaf.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
As it dawns on her how dangerous and unwieldy the company she wants to inherit actually is, Shiv no longer tries to make herself useful to her dad — and Logan’s ears turn deafer.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
“I’m getting more deafer and my wife is getting more louder,” he said with a laugh.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
They are "all screen and the speakers face backwards", he said, though he conceded: "We are all getting a little older and, perhaps, deafer."
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2017
This suggests a co-evolutionary struggle in which the mother’s body becomes deafer as the offspring becomes louder.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2011
Old Gamgee did not look much older, but he was a little deafer.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Genius hovers with his sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because far richer prize invites His heart; far more illustrious glory calls: It calls in whispers, yet the deafest hear.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
There are folks about town—to name no names— Who much resemble that deafest of Dames!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Apparently he was the deafest retainer that a peeress of the realm ever left in charge of a princely pile.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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