earphones

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By 2014, tourists were improvising with items like scrunchies, ribbons and earphones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

The coroner added that "increasingly, more people wear earphones and are therefore less aware of their surroundings".

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

“I was back in New York, and I was walking down the street and a guy looked up at me, pulled earphones out of his head and said, ‘Hey … you’re on my iPod!’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2025

Each participant wore earphones to hear both their taps and their partner's taps, and they had to anticipate their partner's movements.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

She wore her earphones in bed, on the couch, in the bathtub.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides