surveil

verb

Definition of surveilnext
as in to monitor

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Recent Examples of surveil The possibility of insider trading, Kalshi argues, will be minimized by company safeguards verifying employment and tools to surveil for unusual market activity. — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 7 Aug. 2026 The department is looking to buy eight Skydio X10 drones from Axon, the same company the department contracts with to surveil cars in the city. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Another common source of opposition, identified in a 2021 feasibility study, came from community groups worried the cameras would be used to surveil and criminalize marginalized groups. — ABC News, 24 July 2026 For instance, Pennsylvania game wardens are still able to legally enter and surveil rural unposted private property without consent or a warrant. — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for surveil
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surveil
  1. monitor
  2. spy
  3. snoop
Verb
  • There are methods to monitor workloads, whether by shortening starts or skipping them altogether.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The government had checked a hundred and fifty thousand names against its files, actively monitoring immigrants and citizens alike, and deported at least seventy-eight people.
    — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of monitor
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  • Satellite imagery has already spied an area of rising seas expanding north from South and Central America to California’s Baja Peninsula, with a northward expansion expected from there.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • He was arrested by the police and convicted of spying for a terror plot against the network.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of spy
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  • An alcoholic drink will give you a buzz, but if someone laced it with something dangerous, a new poison-snooping patch will buzz your skin to warn you.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Cady had injected some narcotic into a Georgia peach to knock Natalie out ahead of his confrontation with Crystal on the houseboat, but Ray snooping around on the Bowdens’s behalf led to this deadly improvisation.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 10 July 2026
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“Surveil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveil. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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