as in aural
of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing
I have a bad auditory memory—unless I see a word in writing, and not just hear it, I forget it easily
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Recent Examples of auditory
So that kind of auditory element really excited me just as an audience member reading the screenplay for the first time.
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Peter Larsen, Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
But Disco’s enormous Radiohead influence is, like the auditory fingerprints of bands signed to James Murphy’s DFA Records, ultimately set dressing for pop instincts.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
Rehabilitative strategies that rely on multisensory processing could boost outcomes, such as using canes for mobility or auditory aids that allow the newly-sighted to simultaneously use cues from other senses while learning to see.
—Sachin Rawat, Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
Many autistic people require additional time to process auditory input and verbal responses, particularly in unfamiliar circumstances.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
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Peter Larsen, Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
But Disco’s enormous Radiohead influence is, like the auditory fingerprints of bands signed to James Murphy’s DFA Records, ultimately set dressing for pop instincts.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
Rehabilitative strategies that rely on multisensory processing could boost outcomes, such as using canes for mobility or auditory aids that allow the newly-sighted to simultaneously use cues from other senses while learning to see.
—Sachin Rawat, Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
Many autistic people require additional time to process auditory input and verbal responses, particularly in unfamiliar circumstances.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auditory
Adjective
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The bwonnnngs on the soundtrack are an aural cliché now, but the whole delirious package still makes for one of the most thrilling movies of the 2010s.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Mar. 2026
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The station proved pivotal in creating an enthusiastic audience here for such acts as Chuck Mangione, Spyro Gyra, Kenny G, Earl Klugh, Acoustic Alchemy and other aural confectioners who subsequently became mainstays at Humphreys.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Using not only acoustic drums but tape machines, samplers, found objects, and surfaces lined with odd materials, Williams becomes a mosaicist of sound.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Cosmofonia explores the inaudible sounds and voices, including infrasonic vibrations, seismic noises, codes between different species, and acoustic traces of ecological collapse and survival.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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It can be delivered using a device that sits on the ear and sends an electrical pulse to the auricular branch of the vagus nerve, which is found under the skin in the magenta area in the diagram below.—
Paul McClure
May 22,
New Atlas,
22 May 2025
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Each muscle is responsible for a different movement: the anterior auricular muscle pulls the ear forward, the superior auricular muscle lifts it slightly, and the posterior auricular muscle pulls it backward.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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With two stages set up in close proximity, as soon as one band finished, another would fire up immediately, a sort of audial game of hot potato.—
Chris Bieri,
Anchorage Daily News,
15 June 2023
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With Windows 11, the OS adds new audial and visual tools, and new support for third-party hardware and software.—
Michael Muchmore,
PCMAG,
7 June 2022
Adjective
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Nervousness is perceptible across multiple countries.—
CLAUDIA CIOBANU,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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This invisible infrastructural condition becomes further perceptible through sound.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Auditory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auditory. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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