Thesaurus results for WIRETAPPING

wiretapping 1 of 2

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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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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

United is doing more to woo interest via social media, says Schmerin, including tapping members of its employee base who have cultivated followings on various platforms or working with outside influencers who discuss travel.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Nov. 2026
Nvidia declined to comment on either the nature of the independent committee or on whether directors considered tapping Cooley.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 10 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

But co-founder Lynn Lowder, the chief executive officer, spent 16 years in the Marine Corps, starting with force reconnaissance in Vietnam.

— Susan Sarkauskas, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
The exercise was designed around the Marine Corps’ hunter-killer team concept, in which reconnaissance assets identify and track targets before passing information to an FPV drone operator for engagement.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of reconnaissance

Noun

The California Roadkill Observation System includes more than 234,000 observations collected by state agencies, wildlife biologists, researchers and members of the public.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026
Scientists can compare the early universe scenario modeled in Lumina with observations from telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 11 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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