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wiretapped

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past tense of wiretap

as in tapped

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The fund can be tapped when the economy sours and revenue falls.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
SpaceX is shooting for new heights with its upcoming Starship test flight, and the booster tapped for the mission is in its final stretch of preparations before the mission.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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And as the team moved into the couple’s guest house on their San Diego rental property, the filmmakers feared that the home was bugged and ordered a device to try to de-bug it, without success.

— Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
He’s bugged Jay — the two met online and married two years ago before opening their first restaurant last year — to make sure that includes his crispy duck panang curry.

— Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026

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With the festival’s first weekend coinciding with the Brazilian presidential elections, almost every conversation overheard at RioMarket during the event’s early days was intertwined with politics.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Because then Linnea overheard Carter and Ori strategizing in the shelter.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2026

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The 20-minute call, which Aris believes the military monitored, offered a rare glimpse of how the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate is being held.

— Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
The Dutch spies who monitored the Alpha account noted that all of it was sent by a bank in Azerbaijan in American dollars.

— Matthew Cole, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

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