overhear
Example Sentences
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Months after Mr Ravichandran overheard the comments, he resigned but no real investigation took place into his allegations, the tribunal found.
From BBC
In the same way, a neat single photon line reduces the risk of data being intercepted or overheard.
From Science Daily
Her kids accidentally overheard one of the phone calls when Cabot played it on speakerphone for her mom.
From Los Angeles Times
“After overhearing a passionate ideological dispute around her own kitchen table between the future Nobel laureate for literature and his radical friends from the University of Chicago, she muttered: ‘Smart, smart, smart.
A tipster in the southern U.S. recalled overhearing a conversation that seemed to connect a local woman to the pipe bombs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
