wiretap
noun
an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
were wiretapping
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past progressiveof wiretap.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Not long after, agents were wiretapping Code’s phone as well.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2018
By then, the police were wiretapping their calls and suspected that all the food talk was a crude attempt at misdirection.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2017
By February, 2012, Belgian police were wiretapping phone calls within the group.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
