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headphone

[hed-fohn] / ˈhɛdˌfoʊn /
NOUN
headphones
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Even without Starlink, travelers spend flights streaming and scrolling—the rise of headphone resisters doesn’t help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

At their debut, they almost singlehandedly inaugurated a shift towards hyper-intimate headphone pop - it’s hard to imagine Billie Eilish sounding quite the same without them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026

To improve this, Dr Alexander suggests reducing headphone use time and using the transparency mode which can amplify the background noise as well as wearing headphones that don't completely occlude or block the ears.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 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

The jack end of my headphone set had fallen out of my pocket.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

The result is a bit like wearing headphones without the addition of noise-cancelling features, so you can still hear the world around you.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Everybody in the cafe turns out to be a version of Kendall Jenner in Beats’ campaign for headphones with customizable cushions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Some pray in pregame huddles, others pray with headphones and the Hallow app.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Andrea paused the game and they took their headphones off.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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