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noun

as in observation

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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
  1. observation
  2. watching
  3. observing
  4. covering
  5. policing
  6. surveillance
  7. management
  8. supervision
Noun
  • Webb's observations also revealed clear evidence of water within the envelope — the first such detection for IRS 3.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Lee wrote and directed the installment after spending 10 and a half hours in a Los Angeles hospital, jotting observations into his phone.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of observation
Verb
  • The women did not speak to the media after watching the footage.
    — Marissa Armas, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The final minutes of the 49ers’ preseason opener wound down, and Nick Bosa headed down from the press-box level after watching from afar Thursday night.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 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
Verb
  • Enterprise legal teams in 2026 routinely insist on data exit covering prompts, embeddings, and fine-tunes.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of covering
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
Noun
  • 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
  • Political scientist Sandra Borda argued that the difficulties in aid management are related to the tense political transition between the current and previous administrations, which lacked a formal handover.
    — Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Conventional time-management advice, Schore argues, focuses almost exclusively on visible behaviors—meetings, email volume, scheduling techniques and collaboration practices.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of management
Noun
  • The new musical will feature a book by Leah Nanako Winkler and music supervision, vocal, and incidental music arrangements by Or Matias.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Adam Saracco, 41, entered the plea during a court appearance in Maywood and was sentenced to one year of supervision.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of supervision

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