EAVESDROPS (ON) Synonyms: 14 Similar Words

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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Aeiramique Glass, the interim independent monitor with the city whose sector monitors the police department, told NBC News the agency is conducting an investigation into the shooting but hasn’t gotten much from the department so far.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 23 July 2026
As of July 2026, a total of 6,324 exoplanets have been confirmed, according to NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute, which monitors and tracks exoplanets.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 July 2026

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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

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As Gu-cheon and Saeng-gang prepare for Gu-cheon’s trip to the mirror world, Saeng-gang hears a spirit proclaiming that Gu-cheon will die that night.

— Kayti Burt, Time, 17 July 2026
At the film’s end, Abbie Cornish as Fanny hears secondhand about Keats’s death and utters a cry that is almost too much to bear — a cry that feels too real.

— Sarah Chihaya, Vulture, 16 July 2026

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