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The platform also represents an early step toward bio-hybrid control systems that emphasize interaction and adaptation, shifting the focus from controlling living organisms to listening to them.
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
Studio executives might not have had much interest in listening to a preacher from Tupelo, but parent companies could be threatened with viewer anger.
—Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
Voters are angry over homelessness, crime, bureaucracy, fires, and the growing feeling that nobody in power is listening.
—John Shallman, Daily News, 30 May 2026
In other words, the league no longer wants to be in the business of fining people for playing Cody Williams and John Konchar in the fourth quarter, or listening to other GMs whining about it.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 29 May 2026
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
Studio executives might not have had much interest in listening to a preacher from Tupelo, but parent companies could be threatened with viewer anger.
—Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
Voters are angry over homelessness, crime, bureaucracy, fires, and the growing feeling that nobody in power is listening.
—John Shallman, Daily News, 30 May 2026
In other words, the league no longer wants to be in the business of fining people for playing Cody Williams and John Konchar in the fourth quarter, or listening to other GMs whining about it.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 29 May 2026
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Are fans prepared to hear an endless stream of unflattering comparisons to the 1932 team throughout the second half?—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
31 May 2026
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As the two men drink their first soda for nearly a year and wistfully speak of clean clothes, another first-person view drone is heard overhead in the city of Kramatorsk, sending locals scattering.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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“Listen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listen. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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