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headphone

[hed-fohn] / ˈhɛdˌfoʊn /
NOUN
headphones
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"She has her bunk and I have my bunk, she's got her headphone and downloads movies and things."

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Right now, your iPhone 5 is small, slow and still blessed with a headphone jack.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

Simply click the headphone icon — which also shows how long listening to the story will take — and an automated voice will read the article aloud.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2025

The team's artificial intelligence algorithms combined with a headphone prototype allow the wearer to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2024

When Apple introduced the iPhone 7 in September 2016, it lacked a headphone jack.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

The voice of the colleague who pranked her came back into her headphones.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

But he stayed throughout the hearing, which lasted one hour and 15 minutes, showing no emotion and seeming to follow proceedings through headphones.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

On Reddit, citizen sleuths have another theory for headphones’ disappearance: Apple’s decision in 2020 to stop including free headphones with new phones—as well as the move toward AirPods, which are pricier.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Studies suggest the majority of Britons are annoyed by hearing people take calls on speakerphone or playing videos or music on their phones without headphones.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

This is my first time on the T without noise-canceling headphones.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari




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