lip-reading
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"You don't really hear it unless you're kind of lip-reading," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
Eventually, the boxing media learned lip-reading to do interviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
Years of speech lessons and lip-reading practice forced Ross, who is Deaf, to conform to a society that favors sound.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
It said Cummings could communicate with her therapist using written notes, lip-reading or gesturing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2022
She was an expert at lip-reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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