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
Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 21 Oct. 2025
As noted in the release, the Saving Wildcats Conservation Breeding for Release Center is equipped with facilities for breeding, veterinary care and remote monitoring with the goal of preparing wildcats to be released into the wild.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Instead of waiting for tumors to grow, doctors could use routine blood monitoring to guide treatment changes earlier, extending the time patients live without their disease advancing.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2025
Alcohol monitoring was not ordered, according to a representative for the prosecutor's office.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025
To stay ahead, LangChain expanded its product lineup, including LangSmith, an observability, monitoring, evaluation, and deployment platform built specifically for LLM applications and agents.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
The answer is intensive, ongoing monitoring.
—Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
Kohler’s move follows a broader trend of health monitoring entering home fixtures, similar to how smart litter boxes track pet wellness.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
Safety and tolerability were assessed by monitoring of adverse events, vital signs, clinical laboratory tests and systemic perfluorodecalin exposure.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
The training introduces the concepts used in stream team monitoring such as hydrology, natural and human impact on streams and monitoring methods.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
Days of rain and wind Melissa’s exact track is still tricky to pin down, but there are two main scenarios forecasters have been monitoring for days.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
For Muon Space, the deal is important since the startup supplies weather and climate-monitoring satellite systems to third-party clients, including the US Space Force.
—PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
At the very least, Tyson is a name worth monitoring very closely as a potential target for New York.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Such caveats underscore the weakness of compliance monitoring snapshots in capturing the complex pressures and administrative barriers constraining workers’ ability to exercise their rights on a day-to-day basis.
—Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
After all, Coe and River had been monitoring the scene for the candidate’s safety and this was an accident.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
The policy keeps basic access while limiting services and monitoring.
—Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 21 Oct. 2025
As noted in the release, the Saving Wildcats Conservation Breeding for Release Center is equipped with facilities for breeding, veterinary care and remote monitoring with the goal of preparing wildcats to be released into the wild.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Instead of waiting for tumors to grow, doctors could use routine blood monitoring to guide treatment changes earlier, extending the time patients live without their disease advancing.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2025
Alcohol monitoring was not ordered, according to a representative for the prosecutor's office.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025
To stay ahead, LangChain expanded its product lineup, including LangSmith, an observability, monitoring, evaluation, and deployment platform built specifically for LLM applications and agents.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
The answer is intensive, ongoing monitoring.
—Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
Kohler’s move follows a broader trend of health monitoring entering home fixtures, similar to how smart litter boxes track pet wellness.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
Safety and tolerability were assessed by monitoring of adverse events, vital signs, clinical laboratory tests and systemic perfluorodecalin exposure.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
Researchers at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology are monitoring signals of magma movement within the Earth's crust to detect when the next eruption at Etna is imminent, according to a paper published in Science earlier this month.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
The training introduces the concepts used in stream team monitoring such as hydrology, natural and human impact on streams and monitoring methods.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
Days of rain and wind Melissa’s exact track is still tricky to pin down, but there are two main scenarios forecasters have been monitoring for days.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
For Muon Space, the deal is important since the startup supplies weather and climate-monitoring satellite systems to third-party clients, including the US Space Force.
—PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
At the very least, Tyson is a name worth monitoring very closely as a potential target for New York.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Such caveats underscore the weakness of compliance monitoring snapshots in capturing the complex pressures and administrative barriers constraining workers’ ability to exercise their rights on a day-to-day basis.
—Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
After all, Coe and River had been monitoring the scene for the candidate’s safety and this was an accident.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monitoring
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Shoutout to all the pocket-watching haters.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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This season’s starting quarterback, Caleb Williams, likely wasn’t watching that game.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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These artificial stars, moving across the sky in a quick succession, will mar astronomical observation but potentially also confuse migratory birds.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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These practices slow you down, sharpen your observation, and deepen your connection to the local environment.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Protest-goers told the Idaho Statesman about a variety of motivations for showing up, mostly covering civil liberties — rights for immigrants, women and transgender people — and Trump’s authoritarian actions.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
19 Oct. 2025
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Remigration in action CNN reporter Barbie Latza Nadeau has spent years covering immigration and tracing the rise of the far right in Italian politics.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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In fact, during the first period of the fourth observing run (known as O4A), LIGO saw more gravitational wave events than from all previous observing runs combined.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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This combination of talking and observing has immediate benefits.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Amezcua, the mayor, said the raids have complicated local policing and rendered parents afraid to pick up their children from school.—
J. David McSwane,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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For communities being terrorized by militarized policing.—
Tierra Cunningham,
ABC News,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Gallagher Trombley, the Digital Mom Media founder, worries that the helicopter parenting and the constant surveillance of our children, covert or otherwise, might have harmed an entire generation.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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From there, the artworks were shuffled all at once to a freight elevator, and then moved into the exhibition hall, which can be seen on video surveillance.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That money is being taken away from habitat management, stocking and improving fisheries for anglers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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In fact, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid’s camp asked the company about the marker, Gina Lázaro, VP of brand management at Sharpie’s parent company, Newell Brands, told Fortune in an exclusive interview.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The version screening at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival was restored by The Walt Disney Studios using a new 4K 16-bit scan of the original negative at Roundabout Entertainment under the supervision of directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
21 Oct. 2025
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Keeping Instagram updated on both devices ensures all settings and parental controls function correctly and new supervision features are available.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Monitoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monitoring. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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