EAVESDROPPED (ON) Synonyms: 15 Similar Words

eavesdropped (on)

verb

past tense of eavesdrop (on)

as in listened in (on)

to listen to (another in private conversation) a nosy traveler who likes to eavesdrop on his fellow airline passengers

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The 20-minute call, which Aris believes the military monitored, offered a rare glimpse of how the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate is being held.

— Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
The Dutch spies who monitored the Alpha account noted that all of it was sent by a bank in Azerbaijan in American dollars.

— Matthew Cole, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

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Meanwhile, companies are deploying AI agents by the thousand, and not one of them has read the company policy or heard the new local court ruling.

— Daniel Kjellén, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Jurors also heard about Garza’s previous run-ins with law enforcement — and his family’s struggles to get help from the county with his mental health.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

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With the festival’s first weekend coinciding with the Brazilian presidential elections, almost every conversation overheard at RioMarket during the event’s early days was intertwined with politics.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Because then Linnea overheard Carter and Ori strategizing in the shelter.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2026

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At a press conference yesterday NASA presented its preliminary findings, which touch on everything from the moon’s surprisingly colorful craters to a series of curious flashes that the astronauts spied in lunar shadows.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
The tourists, having sent home seven players and their coaching staff mid-series, made four changes but really only spied solace in the performance of Razaullah Khan, one of three debutants.

— Paul Newman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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