eavesdropper

Example Sentences

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Tøndel empowers the camera to follow characters down hallways and then continue, peeking around corners, finding an eavesdropper.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

Unfortunately, the researchers using them are often faced with a similar plight as the unfortunate eavesdropper, leaning against a locked door with an empty glass to their ear.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

Communicating with entangled light can also guarantee security, as measurements of quantum systems can reveal the presence of the eavesdropper.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2022

If Ms. Jean’s initial impression of Mr. Alim was that he was a shameless eavesdropper, she changed her mind when the conversation turned to the peaceful protests he had taken part in after those killings.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021

Here he had her, ear to wood, an eavesdropper in her own house.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen