Thesaurus results for WIRETAPPING

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as in eavesdropping

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wiretapping

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verb

present participle of wiretap

as in tapping

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Recent Examples of wiretapping

Noun

The suspects have not responded publicly to the wiretapping accusations. — Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026 Police allege the unauthorized wiretapping took place between 2025 and 2026, after Prabowo had been elected and while Listyo was still national police chief. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026 Lawrence, Massachusetts, Mayor Brian DePeña, who is already facing unrelated federal criminal charges, was arraigned Tuesday on more than a dozen state wiretapping charges. — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Later that year, he was charged with wiretapping, and although authorities did not offer more details, local journalists have reported that the alleged wiretapping was meant to monitor the investigation of his mother. — James Lasdun, New Yorker, 26 May 2026 Under the plan, FISA, which allows warrantless wiretapping of noncitizens, would be extended for three years, with new oversight guardrails and penalties for abusing the spy tool. — Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2026

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Noun

This suggests both the intense focus of Wiesler’s eavesdropping and its insidious intrusion.

— Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2026
Many state wiretap and eavesdropping laws are written around whether a private communication was intercepted or its contents were acquired — not simply whether a conventional audio recording was created.

— MacKenzie Sigalos,Annie Palmer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of eavesdropping

Verb

But according to multiple reports, including the Associated Press, Blackburn is not considering tapping Hegseth.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2026
Changshin taps Palantir Changshin, a Korean footwear company that manufactures shoes for Nike, is tapping Palantir Technologies to connect information and workflows from footwear development and sample planning through factory production.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of tapping

Noun

In it, Reed questions American policy, surveillance, and patriotism across a landscape that juxtaposes scenes of Black youth playing with closing shots of the singer’s silhouette backdropped by flames.

— Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026
Earlier that morning, surveillance footage shows someone taking the case out of a car’s open trunk and laying it along the curb, then picking it up and turning it perpendicular to the curb.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of surveillance

Verb

The Department of Justice’s prosecution of a Saudi national for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room is causing anxiety among OpenAI employees, many of whom are foreign nationals.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of bugging

Noun

Under this concept, armed forces aim to coordinate multiple VICTOR drones into autonomous swarms capable of dividing surveillance, reconnaissance, and transport missions in real time.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
In April, Russia launched a fleet of small satellites into an orbit close to a commercial radar remote sensing satellite owned by ICEYE that provides reconnaissance imagery to Ukraine.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of reconnaissance

Verb

The actress provided the voice of a technologically advanced, data-spying smart refrigerator.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
To support their request to detain Alfozan, the government pointed to a case where former Twitter employees were charged with spying for the Saudi government.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of spying

Noun

Northwestern University Researchers hope FLIP will lead to more discoveries of planets that have been hiding in existing observations.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
Another rescue attempt As Swift’s fate was sealed, mission scientists slowly turned the telescope’s instruments back on to collect data and observations right up until the end.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of observation

Verb

Other members of the crew sat beside and behind him, monitoring scripts and schedules on screens of their own.

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
Nearly three decades later, Leach is now the CEO of Dexcom, a roughly $30 billion company that develops non-invasive glucose-monitoring systems.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of monitoring

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