Thesaurus results for MONITORING

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noun

as in observation

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monitoring

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verb

present participle of monitor

as in watching

to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose police regularly monitor that road to record traffic density and to catch speeders

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Recent Examples of monitoring

Noun

World ocean temperatures hit a record high for July this year, according to a new report from the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026 Failure to perform required monitoring and recordkeeping under permit and plan approval conditions. — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 Customers and employees are not merely recipients of monitoring. — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 That year, China voted for five UN Security Council resolutions to impose crippling sanctions on North Korea and tighten monitoring requirements. — Zheng Jiyong, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026

Verb

Crytica Security wants to change that by monitoring what happens inside the device itself. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been notified of the recent sightings and has been monitoring bear activity in the region. — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 In committee, however, legislators debated whether private companies should be responsible for monitoring federal law enforcement. — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Among the impacts the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will be monitoring, according to McGuire, are levels of the neurotoxin domoic acid, which in late 2015 forced the postponement of the opening of the Dungeness crab fishery season. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the process involves hormone medications to stimulate egg development, monitoring through bloodwork and ultrasounds and an outpatient egg-retrieval procedure. — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Aug. 2026 The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said that its teams are monitoring the situation. — Chantelle Lee, Time, 10 Aug. 2026 While the likes of Ossola wait patiently for their cases to be resolved, others are carefully monitoring the situation. — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026 With the rise of wearable technology (and a growing obsession with tracking our health), VO2 is now something many of us are monitoring. — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monitoring

Noun

Conti recommends setting up a simple observation board made from cardboard and covering it with a white sheet.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
The process of filming and editing became one of observation, contemplation and confrontation.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of observation

Verb

In other words, someone who exercises regularly but also spends many hours each day watching television still has additional risks for worse cognitive health because of their passive sedentary behavior.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
The question reflected my own years spent watching youth tournaments at Anaheim's American Sports Centers alongside thousands of volleyball families.

— Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of watching

Noun

Fundy Dark-Sky Preserve, New Brunswick Fundy National Park offers reasonably dark skies and accessible observing locations along the Bay of Fundy coast.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 19 July 2026
Swift receives more annual observing requests than any NASA facility except the James Webb Space Telescope, and its scientific portfolio is broad, extending to comets and planets in other solar systems.

— Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026

Definition of observing

Noun

To communicate with victims and collect their money, these scammers rely on technology and financial systems that could be disrupted with better surveillance and policing.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2026
Bukele took extraordinary actions, with regard to policing, and achieved extraordinary things.

— Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of policing

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The Triton is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft built to provide persistent maritime intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
And since Jace’s death, she’s treated Baela as nothing more than a defective surveillance drone — a worthless piece of tech that never spots Vhagar.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of surveillance

Noun

The banks maintain that their contracts give them broad authority to end customer relationships and that decisions may be driven by regulatory and risk-management obligations.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
According to officials, the program began in 2001 with NDOW’s first Karelian bear dog, Stryker, making the agency one of the first in North America to use the breed for bear management.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of management

Noun

Control or supervision over the chokepoint has become just as much a red line for Tehran as the right to nuclear enrichment.

— Todd Symons, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Plenty of building still belongs to specialists, including complex systems, security-sensitive applications, and anything going to customers without supervision.

— Will Drover, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026

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