The word reverberation has appeared in eight articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 6 in “A Ballerina Prized for Her Musicality Deals With Hearing Loss” by Gia Kourlas. The article is about how Sara Mearns, the New York City Ballet principal, deals with her hearing loss:
Mearns underwent a series of tests to pinpoint the problem, which is nerve hearing loss. In October, she worked to find the best option for her hearing aids with her audiologist, who put them in place. She can’t feel them, but they make her hyper aware of the vibrations in her body, the air when she is spinning, the reverberation of landings from jumps and the sound of her pointe shoes.
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