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Examples
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The slo-mo is so slow you would need to be not only an expert lip-reader, but to speed up the footage slightly to make out exactly what deprecations were being issued.
Andy Murray swears by bad body language in Australian Open defeat | Martin Kelner 2011
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Billy (a bravura performance by Jacob Casselden), born deaf, but a superlative lip-reader, was brought up and schooled with hearing people.
Raine's Tribal Instinct Breaks Down the Language Barriers Paul Levy 2010
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Besides, Bush so overenunciates for the cognitive challenged that you don't need to be a lip-reader to pick out keywords like "en-tre-pren-oor,", which tax his mouth to the max. My clinical evaluation.
What Goes Unsaid: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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My dad, apparently a skilled lip-reader, raises his arm and waves.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Mr. Marsters became an expert lip-reader and earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry.
His Ingenuity Helped the Deaf Tap the Power of Telephones 2009
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My dad, apparently a skilled lip-reader, raises his arm and waves.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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My dad, apparently a skilled lip-reader, raises his arm and waves.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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He even employs a lip-reader to catch every syllable between the two.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Broken Embraces shows Almodovar's mastery 2009
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My dad, apparently a skilled lip-reader, raises his arm and waves.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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They were walking beyond the bungalows at sunset, totally alone on the sand plain, and Eric kept looking around for eavesdroppers, comically of course, and he affected a side-of-mouth murmur that might frustrate even a lip-reader recruited to study surveillance tapes.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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