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present participle and gerund of overhear examples
plural overhearings
The act by which something is overheard. quotations examples
Where overhearings were intended, as in conversations that girls wanted boys to overhear, the speaker often directed her gaze at the boy who was supposed to overhear while turning her mouth toward the ear of the listener.
2006, Amy Shuman, Storytelling Rights, page 25