as in hearing
range of hearing babysitters should remain within earshot of young children

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Recent Examples of earshot During the walk-through Tuesday, Vance spoke with a convention staffer out of earshot of the press, smiling for the cameras. Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 17 July 2024 Josué, ever talkative, told anyone within earshot that they were headed to New York to see Times Square, or las pantallas: the screens. Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024 Across South Tampa, civilians within earshot of the base’s 13 speakers stop moving, too. Christopher Spata, Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2024 Woodpeckers pecked the gray siding outside, birds chirped within earshot of every bedroom. David Oliver, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for earshot 
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Noun
  • Smith said that at the public hearing last month when the Planning Commission endorsed the project, one speaker brought up the theaters’ potential departure.
    Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • That experience led her to be hired by the Republican chairperson of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to question Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh during Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearing in 2018.
    Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • These flashbacks are presented without audio, as though the sound of Jonathan’s voice and Catherine’s own crying are too excruciating to fully recall.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • And there definitely was a party element to the occasion, with guests moving to the sounds of the DJ, performing line dances with pure joy.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Because of Jupiter’s distance from Earth, the probe won’t arrive until April 2030.
    Benjamin Roulston, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
  • More than 7 in 10 adults are worried that the election results could lead to violence and nearly 1 in 3 have experienced tension and distance from their family members.
    The Courier-Journal, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Oz treats both literal and figurative families as either responsibilities to be resented or props to be arranged for his benefit; The Penguin ends with Oz, his goal finally in sight, re-creating those cycles of violence and outdoing his own brutality.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
  • All are Democrats, with nary a Republican in sight.
    Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024

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“Earshot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earshot. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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