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overhear

verb as in bug

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verb as in eavesdrop

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Example Sentences

Ideally, you can discuss the situation and disclose the source of the funds in a private office, where you can’t be overheard.

As Victoria wakes up, she overhears Tim taking another stressful call about the scandal he’s caught up in but that she knows nothing about.

When discussing the topic of ghosts, he overheard a woman loudly talking to someone else in the audience and decided to ask if she was okay.

From BBC

He was overheard telling an aspiring mafioso to go to school, meet doctors and lawyers, and learn lessons from watching The Godfather trilogy of films about the fictional Corleone gangster family.

From BBC

The comment saying Trump's threat to annex the Great North being a "real thing" was the last thing overheard by reporters before his mic was cut.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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