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"Just taking time to look and listen and take in everything you are connected to the environment you are in."
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Because Warsh hasn’t narrated the committee’s thinking in the way his predecessors often did, investors now have to listen more carefully to everyone else, said Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
As you very well know, Dahlia, I have been trying to have this conversation with anyone who would listen for years.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
He called all the brass to sit and listen to him lecture them about what a true military leader should be.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
I need her to say something again, in a lower register, so I can listen more carefully.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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He makes crawfish, listens to Frankie Beverly and Maze, and doesn’t ingratiate himself with the sports media machine, largely a white institutional space.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
To pass the time, Mauri surfs YouTube, listens to music or stand-up comedy, or watches golf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Outside a nearby shack Linkie listens with interest as she cleans clothes in a large metal bucket.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
He listens to them, as they navigate their complicated feelings, closely tracking the way their intersecting paths lead them toward incremental revelation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
I think He’s a God who listens as if we are his most important children, and I think He speaks to tell us so.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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It is a rallying cry coined by Frelick as a way to remind Milwaukee’s hitters to make every at-bat a fight—and they have listened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The minister said he had listened to their concerns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
While waiting for the magic to start, we listened to the hi-hat riff of ice cubes click-clacking as Stotler worked a cocktail shaker.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
At the front door I listened a moment.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“At this stage,” he says, patting his Wild Horse Nine notebook, “you’re listening to two guys talking and trying to keep up.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
So it also appears elected prosecutors were listening to voters in both directions.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
He told The Times in 2002 that he remembered thinking, “That sounds conversational, that they intend for me to be listening, that I’m smart enough to be listening,” when he first heard the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
And despite the deluge of AI music, external - Spotify says it has removed 75 million "spammy tracks" from its catalogue - real music still makes up most of our listening.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
I stood up, bent because of the wind, shivering, listening to Patch crying.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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