hearkened

variants or harkened
past tense of hearken
as in listened
to pay attention especially through the act of hearing hearken! I hear the distant beat of the hooves of many horses

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  • Meanwhile, people who listened to the fear sold perfectly good stocks and missed major gains.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Banning the song turned out to be useless; millions of people simply listened to it on YouTube.
    Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • Summer, filming her sister at the table, can be heard in the background prompting her to keep going.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Mthethwa also faced an ongoing probe that heard allegations by a provincial police commissioner who accused him of attempting to obstruct the prosecution of a former head of South Africa’s Crime Intelligence Services who was being investigated for corruption.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Hearkened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hearkened. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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