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Recent Examples of listenThose wanting to listen to the full podcast can do so via Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025 Most of them don’t just want to sit and listen.—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025 The full episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast is available to listen on Spotify now.—Thomas Smith, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2025 And if you’re feeling compelled to listen to your own chants, white noises, meditations, etc.—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for listen
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As much as the 49ers try to shield themselves from media speculation, Bethune couldn’t help but hear that their defense was in a bad way with Warner gone.
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Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
The universal love is the applause, either heard in person or received from afar, a love reinforced by the sense of an instant, intimate family—a life backstage or in the trailer, far more interesting than the often unhappy family left behind.
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