overhear

On 8 November, she "overheard some boys talking that Kai had been arrested and that was the first I heard".

About a week into the trial Richards, while in the jury room, was overheard by an usher telling other jurors about joint enterprise murder.

Further along the footpath around the old dock, I overhear an American accent.

The new tension is there in just a few whispers, as when Hedda overhears a guest murmur that their hostess is “duskier than I thought she would be.”

In fact, conspirators were overheard on a wiretap saying they “wouldn’t trust Joe” to agree to their scheme.