listen (to)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for listen (to)
Verb
  • Microsoft followed a similar playbook with Inflection AI, bringing in CEO Mustafa Suleyman and most of his team while leaving the original company as a shell.
    Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • But there’s no hiding that the recent larger-scale legalization of sports betting operations and the partnerships with MLB that followed have had adverse ramifications on baseball.
    Maria Torres, New York Times, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • Gorgeous George was an effective self-promoter, and his character was a major influence on boxer Muhammad Ali and musician James Brown, as noted in Little Village Magazine.
    Mark LaSota, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • However, the reporter noted that at no point did there ever seem to be cause for serious alarm or did there appear to be any significant concern on the part of the security staff.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 July 2025
Verb
  • Maybe a different sect says that AI is to be obeyed only if the human heading the sect has first substantiated the AI’s pronouncements.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • In mid-June, the judge found the attorney general in contempt, instructing him to provide her with biweekly updates on how the state was obeying her order blocking enforcement of the immigration law.
    Jay Weaver July 9, Miami Herald, 9 July 2025
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“Listen (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listen%20%28to%29. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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