surveil

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Recent Examples of surveil Microsoft blocks Israeli military unit from cloud services Microsoft blocked an Israeli military unit from using some of its technology after finding it was used to surveil Palestinians. semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025 China has not only managed to steal the data and surveil the communications of hundreds of millions of Americans. Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025 An Italian parliamentary committee found that the government had used its Graphite spyware to only surveil human rights defenders. Vas Panagiotopoulos, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025 In Myanmar, where Sara was held, criminal organizations seek out riverside locations that can hold and surveil many workers. Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for surveil
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Verb
  • Then there's carefully monitoring multiple loads to make sure every item is washed and dried at the correct temperature.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Controls, for example, need to be continuously monitored so that audit readiness becomes more a state of being, and not a last minute sprint.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2024, 64 people in Taiwan were prosecuted for spying for China—more than the previous two years combined—with principal targets being current or former military personnel.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And when Clara spies her classmate Miller Adams (Mason Thames) along the roadside, and decides to give him a ride, the film introduces a next-generation complication-that-isn’t-really-one.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Olympia is still looking for Senior’s mystery woman and decides to snoop through his Rolodex — old school!
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 12 Oct. 2025
  • There also are characters straight from the David Lynch school of the bizarre, including the menacing figure who warns Ron to stop snooping around and the bearer of a disturbing story about a manufacturing job that requires being nude.
    Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025

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