How to Use listening post in a Sentence

listening post

noun
  • The bunker was built to serve as a listening post manned by three people.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
  • These included a listening post in Cuba and a naval base in Vietnam.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • In addition the Trackers were armed with sonobuoys, droppable listening posts that radio any contacts back to the plane.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Surveillance footage and other data continued to flow to Israeli listening posts.
    — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Still, China will almost certainly send troops to protect the listening post, as much from the prying eyes of Cubans as from the United States.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • After setting up a listening post, the Soviet Union quickly expanded its military forces in and around the island nation.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • Asteroid City is set at the dawn of the space age, in a mid-1950s American desert town built around an impact crater that doubles as a listening post to the stars.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 June 2023
  • The Wave Rider could form part of a picket line of submarine detection drones, or serve as a communications relay for an underwater listening post.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Since occupying the territory, Israel has installed listening posts and military bases.
    — Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
  • The bases also feature a mountaintop listening post to monitor communications in the Middle East and beyond.
    — ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Those adaptations may include complex abilities to think and work together—like using hilltops as intelligence-gathering listening posts.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The deal allowed the two countries to rely on each other’s listening posts around the world, without having to duplicate infrastructure, and to track nuclear armed Soviet submarines.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • The rival governments have also established new listening posts and secret intelligence-sharing agreements with other governments.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Next, the sonobuoy unfolds a five-sided array of 40 underwater microphones (known as hydrophones), creating an underwater listening post.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The station and a handful of others became vital listening posts for Puerto Ricans starved of information Wednesday as their electricity went dark and their cell phones silent.
    — Patricia Mazzei, miamiherald, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Analyze feedback across multiple listening posts, including surveys, reviews and social media, to identify common themes, pain points and opportunities for improvement.
    — Michael Hinshaw, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In a symbolic portrayal of local struggles to get the message out, Nut Brother commandeered one of the few remaining public pay phones in Beijing as a listening post for strangers to come hear about the health problems Huludao residents face.
    — Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • Functioning like the ears of the program, the listening post leverages AI and automation for risk intelligence collection, validation, sentiment analysis and impact prediction.
    — Atul Vashistha, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • If not, that would mean routers were independently infected by three financially motivated groups in addition to Pawn Storm, further underscoring the ongoing rush by multiple threat groups to establish secret listening posts inside routers.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 2 May 2024

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