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Recent Examples of hearings
Meanwhile initial hearings in both legislative houses featured speculation from members on how the budget could be balanced, including sharp spending cuts and tax increases.
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
The question of how to protect fish and the ecological health of rivers that feed California’s largest estuary is generating heated debate in a series of hearings in Sacramento, as state officials try to gain support for a plan that has been years in the making.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Support and apprehension from lobbyists, lawmakers Almost every lawmaker and lobbyist who testified for or against the bill as it was dissected for hours across three committee hearings supported the bill's intention.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Jan. 2026
Throughout his appearances in court and trial hearings, Yoon has repeatedly resisted investigators’ attempts to question him about his wife.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 28 Jan. 2026
Earlier this month, Pasquantino wrote about the Royals moving in the fences at Kauffman Stadium in an X post and included a seemingly throwaway line about salary arbitration hearings.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2026
Cassidy raised significant concerns about Kennedy’s nomination during his confirmation hearings, though Cassidy ultimately voted to confirm Kennedy to lead the nation’s health agency.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
Sentencing review hearings are slated for March 3 and March 10.
—Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Wilson then failed to appear for court hearings and generally disregarded her release conditions, according to prosecutors.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
Dan Walters, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
The question of how to protect fish and the ecological health of rivers that feed California’s largest estuary is generating heated debate in a series of hearings in Sacramento, as state officials try to gain support for a plan that has been years in the making.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Support and apprehension from lobbyists, lawmakers Almost every lawmaker and lobbyist who testified for or against the bill as it was dissected for hours across three committee hearings supported the bill's intention.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Jan. 2026
Throughout his appearances in court and trial hearings, Yoon has repeatedly resisted investigators’ attempts to question him about his wife.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 28 Jan. 2026
Earlier this month, Pasquantino wrote about the Royals moving in the fences at Kauffman Stadium in an X post and included a seemingly throwaway line about salary arbitration hearings.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2026
Cassidy raised significant concerns about Kennedy’s nomination during his confirmation hearings, though Cassidy ultimately voted to confirm Kennedy to lead the nation’s health agency.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
Sentencing review hearings are slated for March 3 and March 10.
—Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Wilson then failed to appear for court hearings and generally disregarded her release conditions, according to prosecutors.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hearings
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Researchers are yet to grasp the full extent of how these many different sounds are integrated into dolphins’ communication networks.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Its seductive chords, its shocking sounds, somehow pierce one’s normal resistance, cutting through snow and ice and whatever else has gummed up one’s works.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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San Francisco is home to iconic sights like cable cars, Chinatown, North Beach, curvy Lombard Street, the Painted Ladies houses, the Presidio, Golden Gate Park, and nearby Alcatraz Island, as well as endless dining options for every budget and palate.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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Skin care brands are setting their sights on acne, and for good reason.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Next the team wants to infer the various distances of the structures that the researchers have glimpsed and to use them to make the map more dynamic and three-dimensional.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
25 Jan. 2026
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“Hearings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hearings. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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