wiretapper
noun
wire·tap·per
ˈwī(-ə)r-ˌta-pər 
: one that taps telephone or telegraph wires or signals
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On the small screen, season 5 of The Crown imagines that the cozy call was intercepted by a wandering wiretapper in real time and sold for profit.
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Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
10 Nov. 2022
But Johnson held back some details, notably anything about the wiretapping, including the wiretapper's name.
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AZCentral.com,
3 Dec. 2019
Rather, as Walter Murch, the film’s sound editor (and crucial collaborator), points out, Coppola chose to focus the entire film on what in a standard thriller would be a minor character, the wiretapper, some guy who drops off the tapes and leaves.
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Jonathan Kirshner,
Slate Magazine,
22 June 2017
No, the first single from Calexico’s newest effort Carried to Dust, out September 2 from Quarterstick Records, is more interested in codebreakers, wiretappers, airplane graveyards and other postmodern metaphors.
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Scott Thill,
WIRED,
15 Aug. 2008
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Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
10 Nov. 2022
But Johnson held back some details, notably anything about the wiretapping, including the wiretapper's name.
—
AZCentral.com,
3 Dec. 2019
Rather, as Walter Murch, the film’s sound editor (and crucial collaborator), points out, Coppola chose to focus the entire film on what in a standard thriller would be a minor character, the wiretapper, some guy who drops off the tapes and leaves.
—
Jonathan Kirshner,
Slate Magazine,
22 June 2017
No, the first single from Calexico’s newest effort Carried to Dust, out September 2 from Quarterstick Records, is more interested in codebreakers, wiretappers, airplane graveyards and other postmodern metaphors.
—
Scott Thill,
WIRED,
15 Aug. 2008
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