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or harkening (to)
as in attending (to)
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hearing
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Adopting that Ontario town seemed like a believable cover story and worked most of the time — except when a fellow American called her out after hearing her accent.—
Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
18 Sep. 2025 -
Jacobs said supervisors were left in the dark, only hearing that their employees’ accommodations had been terminated from the employees themselves.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Hearkening (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hearkening%20%28to%29. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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