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eavesdrops (on)

verb

present tense third-person singular of eavesdrop (on)
as in listens 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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  1. monitors
  2. spies
  3. hears
Verb
  • Business owners, technology leaders and risk teams need clarity about who owns the process, who determines acceptable risk, who monitors performance and who has the authority to intervene.
    — Jayasri Ranganathan, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Nvidia also announced Sentry, which monitors agents and runs on network chips, not CPUs or GPUs.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of monitors
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  • Late one night, Clark spies what appears to be a sliver of light coming through a crack in the wall of the store’s basement.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
  • In Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s The Finding of Moses, a dog spies a young girl whose presence unlocks the painting’s meaning.
    — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
Definition of spies
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  • Making the editing process even more complex was the fact that Jamal hears three voices.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Deadline hears that Paramount has agreed to some CNN guardrails, financial penalties linked to CEO David Ellison‘s 30 movies a year commitment, and some sort of separation of the studios for a period.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of hears
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“Eavesdrops (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eavesdrops%20%28on%29. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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