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• If your doctor were to walk into that Starbucks and broadcast your health information to anyone within earshot without your permission, that would be a HIPAA violation.

• After more than four months of interrupting mom’s Zoom calls, pulling dad around the block and napping in earshot of his two-legged parents, Pluto was buckled up in the back seat of a car en route to his first solo adventure.

• When its overworked and inexperienced officers interviewed survivors, they were forced to do so in the hot, cramped bullpens of dilapidated precincts, within earshot of other detectives and in view of the holding cells.

• To emulate life at a space station, the quarters are tight—Rupert compares the bedrooms to closets—which means you can never really get away from the five or more other participants, or out of earshot of their conversations.

• The war secretary didn’t dare “to go out of earshot of his office,” the Boston Post reported.

• At a Chinese restaurant several blocks away, and out of earshot of the protests, the conversation had carried.

• Once you're out of breath, you might be within earshot of what that phrase conjures up in the United Kingdom: dullness.

• Kate is believed to have been within earshot when the shot was fired, but William was on duty.

• Embarrassed the tirade could be heard from within earshot of a public meeting, one commissioner went to shut the door.

• There is a large antique birdcage with 20 finches ready to inform anyone within that the sun has come up.