overhear
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You can talk to it, let it overhear your day and—in the case of glasses—let it see what you’re seeing in real time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Sometimes I just watch, trying to melt into a crowd, to overhear conversations, to spot glances and gestures and to see who leads and who follows.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
I regularly overhear other birders marveling over the flashy warblers in breeding plumage, while overlooking other comparatively less-flashy birds like vireos and sparrows.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
Over the dull roar of passing vehicles, I would overhear fearful whispers in Mandarin about her health and medical care, which always shifted to Taiyu when I was around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
“You should have been an actor,” she whispers to him when she is certain no one will overhear.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025
Another time she gets caught short when hill walking and with her trousers still around her ankles overhears one of her children tell a passer-by that "mummy is off having a wee".
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
All seems idyllic — until the day Beth, approaching her husband and brother-in-law in a store, overhears Don saying that he doesn’t like her new novel at all, but he can’t tell her.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
On the other hand, judging from my time spent in airports and other public places, a lot of people don’t care at all who overhears their calls.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2023
Like magic, he overhears someone remark, and Herr Thiessen has to agree.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
He recalled when he was 15, growing up in the Vietnamese city of Ca Mau, he overheard his father’s friend ask for a loan to buy a car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
She only learned about the reintroduction plan after asking rangers about discussions she had overheard.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
She also recalled how she had found one of her children, aged 10, "curled up at the top of stairs, alone and frightened", having "found out in the worst way possible" through overheard conversations.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
In one office I overheard a press secretary and a chief of staff talking about music.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
At first she thought it was concern for Mrs. Caruthers, but the day after the incident, she overheard Mama and Cook talking in the kitchen and knew it for what it was.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
The court heard that Morgan had been deemed a "high risk to others and to himself" after overhearing conversations that took place since he has been in custody.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
A tipster in the southern U.S. recalled overhearing a conversation that seemed to connect a local woman to the pipe bombs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
“It was surreal getting back to work and being on the other side of the stage,” Huntley said, overhearing people talk about the early August show days later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025
“Kids are often being exposed to these topics anyway, through their peers, the media and overhearing conversations,” said Wenner Moyer.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2024
About overhearing some of the fight with Guillermo too.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
