listened to
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She married Bill Darrid, a writer-producer, and we moved into a three-bedroom farmhouse in Westport, Conn. I finally had a father who listened to me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
I listened to that thing over and over again, until I spilled a bottle of soap in my tape deck and ruined it.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
ITHACA, N.Y.—On a drizzly Thursday, Cornell University students wandered into consulting recruitment sessions, hustled up the slopes to midterms and listened to a Pulitzer-winning fiction writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
As they listened to the county officials, they started to realize the uphill battle they faced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
We listened to the gramophone instead, and longed every day for the war to be over, for Papi to be home again with us.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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