wiretap

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Recent Examples of wiretap The car was rented under Blanchard’s name, which allowed detectives the access to wiretap his phone and track his every move. Time, 13 July 2023 Despite the technology’s potential for good, of course, there is a clear Orwellian thread in the idea of a future where bad actors can wiretap your brain. Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023 There were real-world flaws with the Russia investigation, especially how the F.B.I. botched applications to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser. Charlie Savage, New York Times, 17 May 2023 The agency has extraordinary power to wiretap Americans and engage in cyber espionage, and its leader has great influence over whether that power is abused. Is this legal? Patrick Reis, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 See All Example Sentences for wiretap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiretap
Verb
  • McNeeley intends on performing wherever Lee places him on the court, tapping into his gritty demeanor, and nodded in virtual appreciation when Lee’s words were relayed to him.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Photograph by Adam Ferguson for the New Yorker The detectives brought in White for questioning, then tapped his phone calls, but produced no evidence linking him to Scott’s death.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Co-worker bugging you during heads down time?
    Sam Woodward, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Banks has bugged Kerkering to clean his locker, to no avail.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The relative then spied a dead dog on an interstate nearby, and assumed the canine was Randy since both dogs had the same shading.
    TJ Macias, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Depending on your age and foreign language ability, fulfilling your James Bond spy fantasies may not be very realistic—but spying for the British government just got more accessible.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The celebratory July 4 meal would certainly have kept the innkeeper, Daniel Smith, busy replenishing the finest bottles of Madeira from behind the locked bar—perhaps overhearing snippets of chatter among the delegates.
    Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The couple with the hiking poles were there, too, eating hamburgers and speaking too softly for Daria and Andrés to overhear.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Wiretap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiretap. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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