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
Despite the many improvements in virtual reality (VR) technology, with realistic visual and auditory content that makes the user feel immersed in the environment, the olfactory sense has not been as faithfully replicated in the medium.
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Shirl Leigh
march 31, New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2026
At Milwaukee Sign Language School, deaf students learn American Sign Language alongside hearing students, while the program at Neeskara and Golda Meir focuses on oral and auditory training.
—Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 31 Mar. 2026
Rain resembles pink or white noise — steady auditory patterns that mask sudden environmental sounds.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
Neuroscientists point out that rain resembles pink or white noise — steady, predictable auditory patterns that mask sudden environmental sounds.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
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Shirl Leigh
march 31, New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2026
At Milwaukee Sign Language School, deaf students learn American Sign Language alongside hearing students, while the program at Neeskara and Golda Meir focuses on oral and auditory training.
—Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 31 Mar. 2026
Rain resembles pink or white noise — steady auditory patterns that mask sudden environmental sounds.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
Neuroscientists point out that rain resembles pink or white noise — steady, predictable auditory patterns that mask sudden environmental sounds.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auditory
Adjective
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Distortion is baked in at the atomic level; no sounds emerge without first passing through swathes of low-grit aural sandpaper.—
Maxie Younger,
Pitchfork,
21 Apr. 2026
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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
Adjective
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Settle in with a brew as bluegrass and acoustic sets get underway.—
Belinda Luksic,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
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Sound mitigation measures — including berms and acoustic treatment — would be incorporated to control noise levels, and exterior lighting would be shielded and directed downward to prevent glare or spillover into surrounding properties.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 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
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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
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An airport offers, if not exactly an equitable experience (there are Clear lines, lounge archipelagos), then at least a perceptible simulacrum of equality, in that everyone rides the same people movers past the same Cinnabons.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Instead, there was a perceptible rise in militant attacks within Pakistan, accompanied by Kabul’s reluctance or inability to decisively act against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.—
Rabia Akhtar,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Auditory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auditory. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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