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as in to realize
to come to an awareness of
I heard your sister is home from the hospital
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Recent Examples of hear
Cush said his decision to email the community about the misinformation was not spurred by any one person or a group but to address the concerns administrators were hearing.
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Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
Explosions could be also be heard in Qatar, where Al Udeid Air Base hosts thousands of service members.
—Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
Voices can be heard describing a man with two gunshot wounds in the back and a woman shot in the back, side and hand.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
Explosions were heard in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
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Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
Explosions could be also be heard in Qatar, where Al Udeid Air Base hosts thousands of service members.
—Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
Voices can be heard describing a man with two gunshot wounds in the back and a woman shot in the back, side and hand.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
Explosions were heard in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hear
Verb
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The inflation goal acts more as a ceiling than a target to be realized.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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By the time the mistake was realized and the wayward runners were led back onto the race course, they had been overtaken by rest of the field.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN Money,
4 Mar. 2026
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This is a time of listening to your inner voice and using it as a catalyst to evolve.—
Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
2 Mar. 2026
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Whatever the shape of your connections, listening first helps both sides grasp the heart of the matter.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Fingerprints of climate change Although natural variability played a role, Swain sees the fingerprints of climate change in several aspects of winter weather, including cold snaps.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
5 Mar. 2026
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Activists are also instructing people to keep them out of sight so ICE agents don’t see them and later target them.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
Verb
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An opening for the Islamic State came one day in June, 2013, nearly a year after Manbij’s liberation, when the body of a young man was discovered by a shepherd outside town.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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His body was eventually discovered in a retention pond in Mayfield Park.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Others learned of the relocation through social media or from other patients, said attorney Benjamin Ikuta, who is representing the couples.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Claude’s central argument—that Marks learned from Graham and Buffett just as Claude learned from training data—sounds profound, but human learning and statistical pattern-matching over text corpora are not the same.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Aloe vera and mushroom extracts Aloe vera extracts that bypassed FDA review were found in more than 450 products in FoodData Central, a food and nutrient database managed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, according to the investigation.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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When both of these high-resolution, deep observations are combined (see the overlap), clear evidence appears for that grouping, with what appears to be four globular clusters all found together in a tiny region of space.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Hear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hear. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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