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hear of
verb as in hear about
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Example Sentences
There is a palpable sense of shock on the faces of people gathering at the site of a major funicular crash in the Portuguese capital as they hear of how a three-year-old German boy was pulled alive from the wreckage - a lucky survivor of Wednesday's terrible crash which killed 16 people.
Kate Forbes, deputy first minister and MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, said she was deeply sorry to hear of news of the incident.
"You don't really hear of many zookeepers, or if you do, you don't really know how they got into that position in the first place," he says.
In a statement on Sunday, Oasis told NME that it was “shocked and saddened” to hear of his death.
On Sunday, Oasis said in a statement they were "shocked and saddened" to hear of the death of a fan.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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