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  • noun Plural form of listener.

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Examples

  • O thou Apostle! let not those grieve thee who vie in misbelief; or those who say with their mouths ‘We believe, ’ but their hearts do not believe; or of those who are Jews, listeners to a lie, —listeners to other people, but who come not to thee.

    Medina Suras. The Chapter of the Table. 1909

  • One of the listeners is a traveller named Benjamin (whose background I'll not be so bold as to fictionalise), who listens as Duncanian finishes up his rant with a sweeping expansion of the wager which rather glibly categorises religious views as polytheism, monotheism and atheism, portraying the first as something of a free-for-all, the second as an endless series of coin-tosses between X One True God and Y One True God, and the third as a canny suspicion of all these dodgy doctrines and dogmas.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • One of the listeners is a traveller named Benjamin (whose background I'll not be so bold as to fictionalise), who listens as Duncanian finishes up his rant with a sweeping expansion of the wager which rather glibly categorises religious views as polytheism, monotheism and atheism, portraying the first as something of a free-for-all, the second as an endless series of coin-tosses between X One True God and Y One True God, and the third as a canny suspicion of all these dodgy doctrines and dogmas.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE Hal Duncan 2007

  • What she's now telling her listeners is what Dave Ramsey has been saying from the start always have that emergency stash.

    Your Emergency Fund Or Your Debt? | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • The No Worker Left Behind initiative, which for your listeners is two years of college tuition.

    Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Defends Handling Of Economic Crisis 2010

  • In the case of the U.K. group Squeeze, whose hits like "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" sum up the '80s for certain listeners, a beer commercial which earned them little money prompted the band to fight back.

    Haven't I Heard That Song Before? John Jurgensen 2010

  • The No Worker Left Behind initiative, which for your listeners is two years of college tuition.

    Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Defends Handling Of Economic Crisis 2010

  • The No Worker Left Behind initiative, which for your listeners is two years of college tuition.

    Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Defends Handling Of Economic Crisis 2010

  • The question for me is will they retain listeners?

    Archive 2009-01-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • WTWV now gets about 10 percent of its listeners from the New York area, Mr. Goodman said

    CBS Radio Plays Tortoise to AOL Music’s Hare - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

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