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listen

[lis-uhn] / ˈlɪs ən /


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El-Sayed says he has "been able to listen and learn ... and where my comments in the past have caused unnecessary pain, to apologize."

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I’m contacted by new artists on a daily basis, and I love it. I listen to everything I’m sent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

"He's our age, he's so young and knows so much. It's hard to listen to people who are old and saying the same things over and over again."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

You can watch the full conversation with Dimon on wsj.com or listen on Apple or Spotify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

If Kate or Maggie’s self-belief ever faltered, they had only to listen to their supporters or read the media, constantly feeding the world the story of the Fox sisters’ marvelous powers.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

The idea was to put on Krapp's Last Tape, an intense one-man play in which an ageing writer listens back to recordings of his younger self, remembering a lifetime of regrets and missed opportunities.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

The influencer said when people find out that she listens to Owens, they often mock her and call her a conspiracy theorist.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

James watches and listens eagerly over on the sofa, elbowing Supreme at every other line I recite.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

"It was emotionally draining, not to be listened to, not to be heard," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

“This kind of thing sometimes takes years, but until we are listened to, it will not stop. It will go forward—no matter what will happen.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

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 knew that U2 had worked with Dolly — I’d heard the track already, and we listened to it again, having learned of her death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Standing as still as the sycamores around me, I waited and listened.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Most nights I was a simple man at the end of the bar, taking in the spectacle, listening, watching.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Lula "is someone you can tell is always open to listening, to hearing criticism -- obviously constructive criticism," Ana Elisa told AFP at a park in Divinopolis, her hometown in southeastern Brazil.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

“In this big moment, we’re listening to Shohei,” Roberts said, “and we’re going to support the crap out of him and believe in him, and that’s it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“We’re listening to Shohei, and we’re going to support the crap out of him and believe in him,” Roberts said, “and that’s it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

But I could tell she wasn’t listening to me at all.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo


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