Listen and Stating

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Listen verb - To pay attention especially through the act of hearing.

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Stating is an antonym for listen.

Nearby Words: listening, listened, listener

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Listen is an antonym for stating in declare topic.

Nearby Words: state, statement, stated

Most of the phone messages you can listen to in First Encounter Assault Recon have the person making the message introducing themselves by stating their full name to the person they're talking to.

Source: Redundancy / Video Games
In the BBC's radio adaptation, this becomes a message on the logging machine (which didn't exist in the comic) stating "...by the time you listen to this, you will be listening to the voice of a dead man."

Source: Dead Man Writing
From stating how Amy is "sometimes a sweet woman but becomes completely erratic", the fact that Samy and Amy refuse to listen to criticism, and the fact that Ramsay would be wasting his time with them as they won't change.

Source: Series / Kitchen Nightmares

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