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lip-reading

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noun

  1. Also called: speech-reading. a method used by deaf people to comprehend spoken words by interpreting movements of the speaker's lips

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Eventually, the boxing media learned lip-reading to do interviews.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

La Liga has requested an expert lip-reading report but the investigation has yet to be concluded.

From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024

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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