headphone
Americannoun
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headphones
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Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
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any set of earphones.
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At their debut, they almost singlehandedly inaugurated a shift towards hyper-intimate headphone pop - it’s hard to imagine Billie Eilish sounding quite the same without them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
Right now, your iPhone 5 is small, slow and still blessed with a headphone jack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
To improve this, Dr Alexander suggests reducing headphone use time and using the transparency mode which can amplify the background noise as well as wearing headphones that don't completely occlude or block the ears.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to create just such a "sound bubble."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
I put down the headphone and walked out.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
The test subjects—patients diagnosed with a rare brain disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD—sat in a room with a chair and a television and each was given headphones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The voice of the colleague who pranked her came back into her headphones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
But he stayed throughout the hearing, which lasted one hour and 15 minutes, showing no emotion and seeming to follow proceedings through headphones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
A Transport for London survey of 1,000 people last year found 70% of respondents found loud music and phone calls without headphones a nuisance.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
I miss getting a strawberry yogurt smoothie from the fridge, putting my headphones on, and walking the ten minutes to school every morning.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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