as in acoustical
of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing
I have a bad auditory memory—unless I see a word in writing, and not just hear it, I forget it easily
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Recent Examples of auditory
This electric charge may help lidocaine penetrate the eardrum and reduce an overactive auditory system.
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Carley Millhone, Health, 20 Oct. 2024
The Nuance audio collection — a yet-to-come-to-market but highly anticipated assortment of frames that integrate open-ear hearing technology into a pair of eyeglasses that improve vision, offering users an immersive and clear auditory experience — is gearing up for FDA approval.
—Thomas Waller, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
Though past studies have looked at auditory communication among dolphins, few have focused on other modes of communication, such as body language.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
But the brain’s auditory pathway does not process all of those elements at once.
—Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
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Carley Millhone, Health, 20 Oct. 2024
The Nuance audio collection — a yet-to-come-to-market but highly anticipated assortment of frames that integrate open-ear hearing technology into a pair of eyeglasses that improve vision, offering users an immersive and clear auditory experience — is gearing up for FDA approval.
—Thomas Waller, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
Though past studies have looked at auditory communication among dolphins, few have focused on other modes of communication, such as body language.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
But the brain’s auditory pathway does not process all of those elements at once.
—Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auditory
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The opening acoustic guitar plucks get plenty of low and low-mid resonance, while strong treble response gives a clear, crisp string texture.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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Lava Music View 5 Images View gallery - 5 images Lava Music has spent the last few years impressing music journalists and guitarists with a bunch of carbon fiber acoustic/smart guitars.Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
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Seldom settling for straightforward linearity or conventional structure, the group arranged sophisticated polyrhythms into the aural equivalent of jigsaw puzzles, and juggled scales and time signatures with profound dexterity.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
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But during a visit to Auschwitz together, his memories rush in—aided, in a common Holocaust-film trope, by a flashback, this one aural (barking dogs and screeching trains)—and his emotional opening-up begins.Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Although evidence is mixed, researchers found stimulating points in the outer ear—auricular acupuncture—to help with quitting smoking when combined with other methods.13 Mindfulness: Another method that may help people quit tobacco is mindfulness.Mark Gurarie, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
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Some people can control their auricular muscles to move the ear slightly but to a noticeable extent, an ability that seems to have a genetic basis.C. CLAIBORNE RAY, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2017
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With two stages set up in close proximity, as soon as one band finished, another would fire up immediately, a sort of audial game of hot potato.Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
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With Windows 11, the OS adds new audial and visual tools, and new support for third-party hardware and software.Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
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And the songs followed this logic, molting bit by bit, year over year, the changes barely perceptible in the moment, until a full evolution had occurred.Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
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But during ninety remarkably fast-talking minutes in New York—verbally, both candidates are speed demons—the Ohio senator J. D. Vance moved the narrative of the race in a small but perceptible way toward the Republican side.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Auditory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auditory. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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