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heard

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verb

past tense of hear

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of heard
Verb
Fox News Digital obtained shocking audio between Cyrus and his estranged wife where the country crooner is heard berating his Australian ex and using profane language. Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024 This is what The Athletic has heard about Chelsea’s plans for January so far. Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024 Explosions were also heard in Dnipro, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, and Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv Independent reported. Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 In a video posted to Kendall's sister Kim Kardashian's story, the SKIMS mogul can be heard asking to take one of the bottles of 818 as a parting gift. Catherine Santino, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024 The attack included ballistic missiles, the station added, with several explosions heard thundering across the city. Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 When reached by The Enquirer Monday evening, Jeffreys had not yet heard ODOT had made the same suggestion. Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024 The revelation that the grand jury has heard more testimony in recent weeks suggests prosecutors are still pursuing new evidence. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024 That very night, British troops heard Germans singing carols and saw decorations poking up from the opposite trenches. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heard
Adjective
  • Try this: Clap your hands loudly in the middle of your room and listen for the decay—the audible echoing of that clapping sound.
    Parker Hall, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2025
  • When pressed, the buttons make an audible clicking sound.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But as Sophie Turner began appearing in movies and TV shows outside of the Song of Ice and Fire universe, the world quickly realized that the lady has real range.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 31 Dec. 2024
  • This is an interesting case as many of the initial trailers had very positive ratios, but the more gameplay was shown off and people realized just how much this was a live service looter shooter, fan support evaporated.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Arabic-speaking soldiers then listened to these calls to determine whether a wanted militant had been found.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The detectives then listened to the recording the kidnappers left in the bedroom.
    KFOX Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • One large stone had a few cut marks but no discernible letters.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Audio Descriptions are audible narrations of scene changes that would not be otherwise discernible through the regular dialog.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But once the job became a reality, Williams discovered the job was unsustainable.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Biologist Hugh Gabriel discovered a new species of frog in Madagascar that spend their entire lives in trees in the rainforest and have a lifestyle unique for frogs.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Cortland sawing off his own arm and serving it to his tyrannical father — that’s pretty straightforward.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Instead, open up space at the bud union for basal breaks by sawing out undesirable canes flush at the bud union.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Every time, the conversation is a little different; every time, my knowledge of a friend is deepened or complicated, even if that change is barely perceptible.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2025
  • False positives aren’t a major concern, because the stimulation pulses are rarely perceptible to patients.
    Tim Denison, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2015
Verb
  • Half of them learned the language in the morning and returned in the evening to have their memory tested.
    Maureen Mackey, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Half the participants learned the language in the morning — the other half learned it in the evening, then slept on it.
    Maureen Mackey, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Heard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heard. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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