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overheard

adjective as in listened to

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“Someone got shot outside,” an attendee of a conference was overheard saying on his way upstairs, where people were chatting over cups of coffee before the day’s events began.

Mr Jackson said six or seven police officers then boarded the plane and he overheard a flight attendant say a woman had been going from one lavatory to the other during the flight.

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Your brother’s clueless girlfriend once called Harris a “DEI hire” because she overheard it on Fox News.

After failing to politely persuade the restauranteurs that my guide dog was well-behaved and then reiterating that it is unlawful to refuse access, one customer who'd overheard me voiced their disgust at the restaurant’s attitude.

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The court heard a taxi driver overheard the boy discussing the attack as he was driving him home.

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

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