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Recent Examples of overhear
The importance of sound and reclaiming one’s voice in a toxic relationship takes more of a literal shape when the vacationing pair overhears a neighboring couple violently fighting in the villa below them.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2025
And then calling him late last night, when his wife might have overheard, what was that about?
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
The pilots overheard the altercation and ultimately decided to turn the plane back around to Savannah Hilton Head airport, rather than continue to Miami.
—Kyla Guilfoil, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
On June 20, 1940, someone told the night marshal, Tip Hunter, that Elbert Williams, a relative of Elisha Davis’s, had been overheard proposing a meeting between the Brownsville and Jackson NAACP branches.
—Essence, 10 Mar. 2025
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2025
And then calling him late last night, when his wife might have overheard, what was that about?
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
The pilots overheard the altercation and ultimately decided to turn the plane back around to Savannah Hilton Head airport, rather than continue to Miami.
—Kyla Guilfoil, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
On June 20, 1940, someone told the night marshal, Tip Hunter, that Elbert Williams, a relative of Elisha Davis’s, had been overheard proposing a meeting between the Brownsville and Jackson NAACP branches.
—Essence, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overhear
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If the sky becomes threatening and thunder can be heard, find a safe place to shelter.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Within minutes, a massive law enforcement response was heard around downtown Tallahassee as officers raced to the scene.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Hopkins said fire department personnel also monitor the outside air and wind direction, knowing that homes downwind are likely to smell the gas and call the fire department with concerns.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
19 Apr. 2025
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Tybee Island's entire police department of about 30 officers will be monitoring the event, along with approximately 130 officers from other local agencies providing support to Tybee for the festival.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Although not a household name like the CIA or FBI, the NSA is a vast and extremely high-tech spying agency that specializes in gathering signals intelligence – more commonly known as electronic eavesdropping - around the world, in space and more recently in cyberspace.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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But everything would suddenly shift after a woman named Ariana spied Foxy’s photo.—
TJ Macias,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Overhear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overhear. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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