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hearings

noun

plural of hearing

as in sounds

range of hearing let's make sure she's out of hearing before I tell you what I got her for her birthday

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Recent Examples of hearings The majority ruled that the Fifth Amendment did not require bond hearings for three men who entered the United States unlawfully but were never legally admitted. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2026 Cook’s lawyer, Paul Tuck, also declined to discuss details of the criminal case Friday other than to say there are no upcoming hearings or filing deadlines. — ABC News, 23 Oct. 2026 Congress should hold hearings focused on companies cutting corners, not AI programs behaving badly. — David Litt, Time, 23 Oct. 2026 In fact, the Hart Kienle Pentecost attorney also requested to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Long that summary judgment hearings currently scheduled for December also be pushed back. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026 The major data privacy scandal sparked more scrutiny of Facebook and led to lawsuits, congressional hearings and multibillion-dollar fines. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 Both will require another vote and public hearings before the moratoriums will take effect. — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 Tuesday’s meeting was the first in what is anticipated to be a series of hearings. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026 The disruption hit systems used for payments, money transfers, deliveries, property searches, and remote court hearings, exposing how a failure in one cloud region can ripple across much of the digital economy. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

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And for more than two heady years, music lovers within a mile or two of the Sunset Junction area could groove to the wildly eclectic sounds of KBLT, a pirate radio station that operated from 1995 to 1998.

— Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
To focus on the sounds, the venue eschews screens — there are no TVs at the Stomping Ground, and Paquette declined to put in one of those screens that promotes the beer selection.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026

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The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including the latest news, events and sights and sounds of the United States.

— Kelly McGreal , Isabella Bernabeo, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Lugo even sees his business expanding beyond Austin, with his sights set on New York City, hotspots across California and even Mexico City.

— Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026

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Scientists have been able to measure quantum effects in larger and more complex systems and over great distances, blurring the line once thought to separate the scale of observer and observed.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
According to the researchers, inflation stretched tiny quantum fluctuations across vast distances in the early universe.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

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