lip-reading
Britishnoun
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We both have hearing aids and rely on lip-reading and have had to kind of navigate that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Ben Siegel of ABC News engaged in a little amateur lip-reading:
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
Rachael Bleakley, who is deaf, said she struggled with lip-reading when she was a child, but subtitles changed everything.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2022
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
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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