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  • noun Plural form of eavesdropping.

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Examples

  • HERMAN: Well, Fred, after 9/11, there were a lot of eavesdroppings that went on and when people found out they were being surveiled, they brought litigations against the telecom companies.

    CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2008 2008

  • The gable-end of the cottage was stained with wet, and the eavesdroppings flapped against the wall.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • He has no major moves, other than going on and on about the legality of his illegal warrantless eavesdroppings and other breakings of the law.

    antidote for the state of the union speech Annie 2006

  • He has no major moves, other than going on and on about the legality of his illegal warrantless eavesdroppings and other breakings of the law.

    Archive 2006-02-01 sfmike 2006

  • He has no major moves, other than going on and on about the legality of his illegal warrantless eavesdroppings and other breakings of the law.

    Bush Step Down sfmike 2006

  • He has no major moves, other than going on and on about the legality of his illegal warrantless eavesdroppings and other breakings of the law.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Annie 2006

  • Between these eavesdroppings and the increasingly rare~ visits home ~of his guardian, Chris gradually buiJt up a fuzzy picture of what the colonists seemed to want.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

  • Keep your senses alert to examine the odd scraps of hearsay that you will often see in the news, for it is in just those eavesdroppings at the heart of humanity that the press often fulfills its highest function.

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • When Lucy had finished the tale of her eavesdroppings, the young fellow shook himself and stood erect.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • The gable-end of the cottage was stained with wet, and the eavesdroppings flapped against the wall.

    Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

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