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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"She has her bunk and I have my bunk, she's got her headphone and downloads movies and things."
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
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
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
She lifts the headphone and says, “Hop off, Mason. It’s my turn to use the Dragon. I’m on the schedule.”
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
Then I watch them roll their eyes, mutter “You already told me this, Dad” and put their headphones back on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A July trip to Target to get everything on her list — among the items, two packs of wired headphones, Band-Aids, eight folders and four composition notebooks — cost about $230.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
WSJ | Buy Side: These bone-conducting headphones work above and below the water, making them a great choice for swimmers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The 2022 Ofcom survey recorded statistics of people who loudcast by ethnicity, and it found higher proportions of people from non-white backgrounds said they watched videos in public without headphones.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
And through my headphones, I heard Lorren’s voice: “Ingrid? I can hear you breathing.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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