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overhear

verb as in bug

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verb as in eavesdrop

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Example Sentences

I’m a first-class eavesdropper, and that’s when my chances to overhear juicy morsels are best.

Last week, when Atwater stopped in a local restaurant for dinner, she couldn’t help but overhear some customers using hateful language to attack Haitian migrants.

He said that he was interviewing attendees about their views on Kamala Harris, but I could overhear him attempting to troll people, asking questions like “How many abortions have you had today?”

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Sometimes because both my parents and Lucia’s parents have come during shooting to help because we have a new kid, sometimes they’ll overhear something and be like, “That’s funny.”

“I used to sit and overhear conversations you had with Eleanor about that.”

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

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