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Another controversy broke last year with a leak of classified Pentagon documents indicating the U.S. may have been eavesdropping on South Korea’s presidential office.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

Or that the respectable Messrs. Faizon and St. Geegland might have been eavesdropping on Mr. Mamet in rehearsal.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015

Ms. Lewinsky also told Mr. Jordan that she was worried that someone might have been eavesdropping on her telephone conversations with the President.

From Time Magazine Archive

FBI agents have been eavesdropping and gathering other intelligence on the group since at least 1993.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You thought I might have been eavesdropping, perhaps," he said.

From The Woman in Black by Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)