deaf
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The report also highlighted the case of Alan Graham, who was deaf and was being treated for cancer at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
On a recent afternoon, Terekh arrived with her 12-year-old deaf dog Chuck and her bodyguards at an upscale Kyiv real-estate development that she had helped design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"I couldn't believe the convergence of elements being so close to my life because we've got a deaf character," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
It’s tough to hear a police siren if your car has made you deaf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
This they did and drew near the island, all except Odysseus deaf to the enchanting song.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
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
He was aware of being able to see increasingly clearly, and as I've got deafer I've noticed that I'm using my eyes better.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2010
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
If you think not, bring the deafest old post of your acquaintance.
From Sisters by Ada Cambridge
But then, what else does Hopeful ding Into the deafest ear except—hope, hope's the thing?
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
Of all old women hard of hearing, The deafest, sure, was Dame Eleanor Spearing!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
She was deaf as a post,—as said before— And as deaf as twenty similes more, Including the adder, that deafest of snakes, Which never hears the coil it makes.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
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