as in guarded
to walk or go around or through (an area, building, etc.) especially in order to make sure that it is safe
The squad had orders to patrol the area. The border is patrolled by the army.
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Recent Examples of patrolled
With a takeout window and a sprawling open-air patio currently patrolled by the world’s noisiest rooster, the modest spot just west of I-95 has become known as a place for warm comfort food without pretension.
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Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Of the 230 homicides logged in areas patrolled by the LAPD, officials said that 156, or 68%, were considered solved.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Is there another book at once so good and so bad, so thrilling and so boring, so authentic to the currents of the soul and so hideously contrived, so stunningly patrolled by dreamlike visions and so crushed by its own intellectual baggage?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
Throughout the day, Radnor Township Police and Pennsylvania State Police vehicles patrolled the campus.
—Joe Brandt, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
Hi Star readers, Residents in Kansas City’s Northland are hearing mixed information on whether armed federal immigration officers patrolled their neighborhoods over the weekend.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2026
Israeli armored vehicles and soldiers patrolled city streets and put up barriers where operations were being conducted.
—Samy Magdy, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
For two years in the late 1990s, the Danish elite special forces soldier patrolled the vast, frozen expanses of Greenland’s uninhabited northeastern corner, often with only eleven dogs and one fellow soldier for company.
—Lisa Abend, Time, 18 Jan. 2026
More officers patrolled the area on Friday and were also not able to find the monkeys.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Of the 230 homicides logged in areas patrolled by the LAPD, officials said that 156, or 68%, were considered solved.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Is there another book at once so good and so bad, so thrilling and so boring, so authentic to the currents of the soul and so hideously contrived, so stunningly patrolled by dreamlike visions and so crushed by its own intellectual baggage?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
Throughout the day, Radnor Township Police and Pennsylvania State Police vehicles patrolled the campus.
—Joe Brandt, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
Hi Star readers, Residents in Kansas City’s Northland are hearing mixed information on whether armed federal immigration officers patrolled their neighborhoods over the weekend.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2026
Israeli armored vehicles and soldiers patrolled city streets and put up barriers where operations were being conducted.
—Samy Magdy, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
For two years in the late 1990s, the Danish elite special forces soldier patrolled the vast, frozen expanses of Greenland’s uninhabited northeastern corner, often with only eleven dogs and one fellow soldier for company.
—Lisa Abend, Time, 18 Jan. 2026
More officers patrolled the area on Friday and were also not able to find the monkeys.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patrolled
Verb
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Rather than social paranoia per se, people simply become exceedingly guarded and opt to turn off all external contact.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Part Two of the plan was going to a zone defense, and then finally, Lucas put muscular freshman Shelton Henderson on Okorie and face-guarded him and tried to take him out of the game.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Today, approximately 70% of the property’s total acreage is now permanently protected.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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High vaccination rates create a shield for those who can’t be fully protected during a measles outbreak.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Patrolled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrolled. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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