spy on

phrasal verb

spied on; spying on; spies on

: to watch (someone) secretly

He spies on his neighbors.

Have you been spying on me?

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The site also says police distributed an update to hackers who used the Redline and Meta malware designed to spy on them. —

Michael Kan, PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024 And who would have been spying on our heroes all this time, leaving them threatening notes to stop the podcast, placing hidden cameras in their flats? —

Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024 Gadgets catch on fire, get hacked so that remote intruders can spy on you, or get infected with malware that turns them into botnets. —

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024 Zhao, 48, has become known for developing adversarial tools to fight technological overreach, having previously developed bracelets to keep smart speakers from spying on people and tools to help fool facial recognition systems. —

Garrison Lovely, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for spy on