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Recent Examples of hard of hearing
He’s known about the popularity of hockey within the Deaf and hard of hearing communities for years.
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Scott Powers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Interpretation Added to Other Shows PBS KIDS is also reaching children who are Deaf and hard of hearing by adding American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation to a variety of shows.
—Jaclyn Greenberg, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
Undaunted Guild is a group of players from the deaf and hard of hearing community whose goal is creating an inclusive environment for people to play World of Warcraft.
—Ryan Easby, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2024
Wong hopes her team – which is made up of deaf and hard of hearing folks, immigrants and people with disabilities – will be at the forefront of ushering in that progress.
—Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Scott Powers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Interpretation Added to Other Shows PBS KIDS is also reaching children who are Deaf and hard of hearing by adding American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation to a variety of shows.
—Jaclyn Greenberg, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
Undaunted Guild is a group of players from the deaf and hard of hearing community whose goal is creating an inclusive environment for people to play World of Warcraft.
—Ryan Easby, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2024
Wong hopes her team – which is made up of deaf and hard of hearing folks, immigrants and people with disabilities – will be at the forefront of ushering in that progress.
—Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard of hearing
Adjective
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Her sister Reina Solis, who is deaf and uses ASL, said in Murder Has Two Faces through an interpreter that Evelyn learned sign language to communicate with her.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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The app was inspired by Dimitri Kanevsky, a research scientist at Google who has been deaf since early childhood, and it was developed with feedback from Gallaudet University.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
6 May 2025
Adjective
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This was perhaps the part of Heiss, Prima thought, to which Heiss remained deliberately blind.—
Lillian Fishman,
New Yorker,
4 May 2025
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The comedian became the first blind winner of BBC entertainment juggernaut Strictly last year, three years after Rose-Ayling Ellis – who is currently starring in two mainstream network TV dramas – was the first deaf contestant to take home the Strictly trophy.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The online donations poured in alongside notes expressing far-right and racist sympathies, prompting a decision to mute comments by the Christian crowdfunding service hosting the campaign, which has been used to raise money for Daniel Penny, Luigi Mangione and Kyle Rittenhouse.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 May 2025
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Doctors had braced Gianna's parents for the possibility that their daughter might be blind, mute or unable to swallow as the tumor pressed down on the vital nerves of her brain stem.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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For example, some patients with leukemia receive bone marrow transplants, which replace the diseased blood stem cells in the bone marrow with healthy ones.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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The investigators also obtained a trove of inspection documents from two Mountaire Farms slaughterhouses through a Freedom of Information Act request, which revealed instances of birds being scalded alive, buried alive, suffocated to death, amputated, diseased, and contaminated with feces.—
Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The move came after state public health inspectors fined Golden Legacy for handcuffing an incapacitated patient’s ankle to the bed in violation of state and federal laws.—
Don Thompson,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
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The 25th Amendment also has a controversial provision that allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet, or the majority of another body that Congress designated by law, to initiate the transfer of powers from an incapacitated president to the vice president.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Hard of hearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard%20of%20hearing. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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