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Recent Examples of surveil
Globally, autocrats have more tools to surveil and disrupt digital campaigns.
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Julia Angwin, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
In this near-dystopian context, it’s never been easier for authorities to surveil, imprison or kill people.
—Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
The film also draws parallels between Manson's apparent attempt to connect the murders to the Black Panthers and the FBI's COINTELPRO and the CIA's Operation CHAOS, programs that the agencies used to surveil and sometimes infiltrate left-wing groups in the 1960s.
—Liam Quinn, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Prioritizing local control of HIV prevention efforts, the CDC provides millions of dollars of grants to state and local health departments and nonprofits to conduct much of the on-the-ground efforts to surveil and combat the virus.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Julia Angwin, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
In this near-dystopian context, it’s never been easier for authorities to surveil, imprison or kill people.
—Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
The film also draws parallels between Manson's apparent attempt to connect the murders to the Black Panthers and the FBI's COINTELPRO and the CIA's Operation CHAOS, programs that the agencies used to surveil and sometimes infiltrate left-wing groups in the 1960s.
—Liam Quinn, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Prioritizing local control of HIV prevention efforts, the CDC provides millions of dollars of grants to state and local health departments and nonprofits to conduct much of the on-the-ground efforts to surveil and combat the virus.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surveil
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They’re also linked to a cosmic authority called the Galactic Federation that monitors these types of special beings around the universe.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
1 May 2025
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The aluminum anklets are utilized for the same reasons — namely to track, study, and monitor bird populations — but because there are far more ducks and geese than there are wild turkeys in North America, a hunter’s chances of killing a banded gobbler are way lower.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
1 May 2025
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There is also an exceptional and endearing mixed-species romance to spy; the improbable results of which is the unexpected birth of a hybrid rockaroni chick—perhaps a sign of evolution and what may turn out to be a brand-new species.—
Laura Manske,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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As gunfire fills the air, Clyde spies Spencer in the train.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Helping distract the men from the matter at hand was Tim snooping around the Deputy Director’s office, and getting caught.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Snowplow parenting tells me to lean into snooping and send emails to their teachers requesting retakes and extensions.—
Gail Cornwall,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Surveil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveil. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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