HEARS Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

hears

verb

present tense third-person singular of hear

as in realizes

to come to an awareness of I heard your sister is home from the hospital

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as in listens

to pay attention especially through the act of hearing at least hear what I have to say before you start disagreeing

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Recent Examples of hears Deadline hears that the BBC has held tentative discussions about whether Sounds could be folded in with iPlayer to create a single streaming service for video and audio, not unlike Netflix and YouTube. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2026 Her 7-year-old hears the conversations around her, sees the protests in her community and notices the visiting canal personnel. — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026 Print out every word a child hears on the way to mastering language and the stack stands about as tall as a house. — Charles Yeomans, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Every audience hears about the tweets from Michigan’s William Lawrence, condemning the nuclear family, and New York’s Darializa Avila Chevalier, about how July 4 should be about the liberation of Palestine and Puerto Rico. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026 In the song’s closing moments, the Edge hears something older than country music in Parton’s voice. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026 Often a parent hears a child speaking English with friends or siblings and assumes the child is already proficient and has exited the program, Villarreal said. — Emily Woodruff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 The recusal comes shortly before the court hears the case filed by local officials in Boulder, Colorado, against Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026 Making the editing process even more complex was the fact that Jamal hears three voices. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hears

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Investigating the shoot-out is the third-generation sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), who realizes Moss is in danger and tries to track him down.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
Within a few more minutes, though, the group realizes some landmarks remain.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of realizes

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The body performs them automatically while the driver listens to music, talks with a passenger or eats a sandwich.

— Jesse Granger, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The first phase is the music one listens to while thinking about writing, and the second is the music one listens to while actually writing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of listens

Verb

Some of the movie’s most memorable moments have barely anything to do with the plot, like when Matt discovers his eyelids fusing together and attempts to separate them with nail scissors in the bathroom of a bumpy plane.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Some way off Moss discovers a bag with $2 million in cash and takes it.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of discovers

Verb

Future quantum applications The team sees potential applications in electronics that consume less power and switch states rapidly.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
What the Collective[i] network sees says the answer is faster than almost anyone expects.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of sees

Verb

Now, Muse is attracting similar attention, partly because of how the assistant learns about the person on the other side of the conversation.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
But litigation could be financially ruinous to Taylor & Byrne, as Nick learns from a disgruntled Bernard (Steve Furst), the firm’s finance guy.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of learns

Verb

Going deeper Deloitte’s CFO Signals article finds that many organizations manage AI spending reactively rather than proactively and rely on basic or general controls.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
Whoever finds my key shall travel far, said Nana, though people whispered that the road to her house had no end.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

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