profoundly deaf
Britishadjective
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He said: "You can't have somebody locked in hospital who's now de-skilled, profoundly deaf, non-verbal, and just told they are free to go home."
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2025
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
Shuttleworth, age 40, a resident of Manchester, England, is profoundly deaf in both ears and uses a mobile live audio transcription app as his main conversational tool.
From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 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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