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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overhear.

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Examples

  • But occasionally words and phrases come up so often in overheard conversations that they seep through.

    “Mainstream” schooling and disablism « Gin&Comment 2009

  • The second piece, Bach's motet, was ... a bit ragged in singing (and so I also overheard from a few people who thought the same).

    DaCapo / two: a second glance melted_snowball 2008

  • After my relating an experience from over the week-end, Kate and Deborah suggested that we should have a competition for the most outlandish thing overheard from a fellow audience member over the course of the next season.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • After my relating an experience from over the week-end, Kate and Deborah suggested that we should have a competition for the most outlandish thing overheard from a fellow audience member over the course of the next season.

    Lunch, or 2006

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    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Joe will remind the whole group that he once had a phone call overheard in college so he's been the victim of warrantless wiretapping and can bring the personal touch to the hearings.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Joe will remind the whole group that he once had a phone call overheard in college so he's been the victim of warrantless wiretapping and can bring the personal touch to the hearings.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Joe will remind the whole group that he once had a phone call overheard in college so he's been the victim of warrantless wiretapping and can bring the personal touch to the hearings.

    Hullabaloo 2005

  • As a dot-com company, Film Threat has survived because our overheard is so low.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2001

  • She saw again the Dinard letter and his furious despair at a word overheard at a wine-shop table.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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