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as in interference
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as in wiretapping
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Recent Examples of eavesdropping
All of the people who are already, or should be, on high alert about the potential for eavesdropping attacks and taking measures to mitigate them.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
At some point, talking to her stopped feeling like an interview and more like eavesdropping as Glaser let her inner voice spiral.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
There is also additional information on how this works to protect governments from nation state eavesdropping on the iOS platform.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Aside from some intense eavesdropping, the system can also cut the connection between the drone and its controller.
—New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
At some point, talking to her stopped feeling like an interview and more like eavesdropping as Glaser let her inner voice spiral.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
There is also additional information on how this works to protect governments from nation state eavesdropping on the iOS platform.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Aside from some intense eavesdropping, the system can also cut the connection between the drone and its controller.
—New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eavesdropping
Noun
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Read: An unabashedly intellectual murder mystery In both novels, the artists eventually do solve their mysteries, but largely through the interference of others rather than their own genius.—
Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2025
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Our lawmakers must allow the department to do its job — free from political interference and ideological posturing.—
David Bloomfield,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Russell Jones taunts investigators while alone in the interrogation room.—
Natalie Morales, Richard Fetzer,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2025
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But then the woman Bob slept with goes missing and new revelations in the decade-old Summers case send Sarah and Bob back into the interrogation room.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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The unit soon started making their own drone bombs and by March 2023, Birds of Magyar had grown from a reconnaissance platoon into a strike drone company.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The commandos’ raid into the heart of Seoul on Jan. 21, 1968 — and North Korea’s seizure of the American reconnaissance ship U.S.S. Pueblo two days later — marked one of the peaks of Cold War tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Elliot and Eli clash a little, first when the old man chides his son for not giving Becky a proper goodbye in the morning, second when El’s questioning of Eli’s field training officer results in Eli getting lightly hazed by his peers.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
24 Apr. 2025
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One survivor was detained for investigation and remains in custody for further questioning.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Hikvision, a Chinese video surveillance company that doesn’t appear on the Pentagon list but has been sanctioned by the Department of Commerce over its involvement in China’s repression of ethnic Uyghurs, also sells its products on Amazon.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Apr. 2025
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McIntire was allegedly also captured on surveillance footage at the Kansas City International Airport after.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Eavesdropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eavesdropping. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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