How to Use listening post in a Sentence

listening post

noun

• Asteroid City is set at the dawn of the space age, in a mid-1950s American desert town built around an impact crater that doubles as a listening post to the stars.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 June 2023
• These included a listening post in Cuba and a naval base in Vietnam.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• In addition the Trackers were armed with sonobuoys, droppable listening posts that radio any contacts back to the plane.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
• Still, China will almost certainly send troops to protect the listening post, as much from the prying eyes of Cubans as from the United States.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• The station and a handful of others became vital listening posts for Puerto Ricans starved of information Wednesday as their electricity went dark and their cell phones silent.
  — Patricia Mazzei, miamiherald, 20 Sep. 2017
• The deal allowed the two countries to rely on each other’s listening posts around the world, without having to duplicate infrastructure, and to track nuclear armed Soviet submarines.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• The Wave Rider could form part of a picket line of submarine detection drones, or serve as a communications relay for an underwater listening post.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
• Initially Webb was put to work cataloging the thousands of encrypted German radio messages that British listening posts were intercepting each day.
  — National Geographic, 6 May 2020
• In a symbolic portrayal of local struggles to get the message out, Nut Brother commandeered one of the few remaining public pay phones in Beijing as a listening post for strangers to come hear about the health problems Huludao residents face.
  — Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• These listening posts would have their own torpedo mines—encapsulated homing torpedoes anchored to the seabed and launched on command—to intercept the apocalypse torpedo.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2018
• Next, the sonobuoy unfolds a five-sided array of 40 underwater microphones (known as hydrophones), creating an underwater listening post.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2022
• The rival governments have also established new listening posts and secret intelligence-sharing agreements with other governments.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Functioning like the ears of the program, the listening post leverages AI and automation for risk intelligence collection, validation, sentiment analysis and impact prediction.
  — Atul Vashistha, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Analyze feedback across multiple listening posts, including surveys, reviews and social media, to identify common themes, pain points and opportunities for improvement.
  — Michael Hinshaw, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024