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On 17 October 2022, shortly before a retrial was due to begin, Bujko made a statement about a conversation she claimed to have overheard between Campbell and another inmate.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2024

Then I recalled a gossipy remark about her I made to someone else that she could have overheard.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2022

Anyway, Freddie and her writer friends think they may have overheard a murder in the reading room at the Boston Public Library — it is, notes Freddie, the opposite of a locked-room mystery.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2022

Neither her father nor I have ever been big cursers, so it wasn’t something we were inclined to drop into conversations that she might have overheard.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2019

His voice was pitched so low that even the horses could not have overheard.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin