profoundly deaf
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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She began signing when her younger sister was diagnosed profoundly deaf aged five.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Sade Oram, 25, and her younger sister Topaz, 23, were diagnosed profoundly deaf as toddlers and fitted with cochlear implants.
From BBC • May 23, 2024
Eli Lilly announced this week, for example, that a profoundly deaf boy from Morocco given its treatment as part of a clinical trial in Philadelphia can now hear.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 26, 2024
The teenager is profoundly deaf and was born without a cochlea, meaning he cannot use hearing aids or cochlear implants and does not use speech.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2023
In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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