as in to listen
to pay attention especially through the act of hearing
upon hearing the offending ringing, the teacher sarcastically cried, "Hark! Could that possibly be a cell phone?"
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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 -
Whatever the shape of your connections, listening first helps both sides grasp the heart of the matter.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
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Explosions have also been heard in several other Iranian cities but the extent of the damage or if any senior officials were killed is still being determined.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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Others didn’t want to hear explanation, suspicious of a larger culture that considers anti-Blackness the usual weather, on some psychic level, basically tolerable.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Hark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hark. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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