hearers

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Accordingly, for voice hearers with serious psychotic disorders, it might be that their brains struggle to process noisy sensory information that is somehow being corrupted or degraded, thus, they update their expectations less readily.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

Internationally acclaimed musicians braved the elements to bring music to parks, gardens and markets, and moved their hearers to both tears and laughter with the power of their playing.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2022

In his homily during the canonization Mass, Francis encouraged his hearers to pursue holiness not as “an unattainable goal,” but rather as something that can be found “in the trials of real life.”

From Washington Times • May 15, 2022

Neolin told his hearers to regain the Master’s favor by renouncing white culture, including liquor, guns, and textiles, and returning to traditional clothing and weaponry.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

He certainly did add ‘spirit’ to the meetings, and ‘a tone’ to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott