headphones
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In the Resilience Department, visitors can don headphones to listen to sounds recorded by Canada-based artist Margüi during an epileptic seizure for a piece titled “Unbreakable.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Sources told the BBC that the accused simply stood pointing his mobile at the training session, while wearing in-ear headphones.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
“Some of them had their headphones in, some of them were playing up to the camera. One of them went to sleep briefly.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
But now, without his headphones, he enjoyed listening to birds sing as he took walks around Washington.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
They’d all been prodded and tested, examined inside and out, and given fiendishly difficult tasks such as solving math problems while wearing headphones through which a friendly voice whispered incorrect answers.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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