Listening
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari is often seen wearing headphones, listening to music on his SDAT player, when he wants to block out reality.
Source: Headphones Equal Isolation -
The young heroine sees the Chinese man as a wise mystic and assumes he's listening thoughtfully when she talks to him, when in reality he doesn't speak English and is just waiting for her to leave.
Source: Inscrutable Oriental -
Lampshaded in the first line of Reality Is Fluid when First-Person Smartass Eleya is only half-listening to a politician speechifying.
Source: Blah Blah Blah
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Reality and Listening. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/listening/reality
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