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Recent Examples of surveil
But the Drug Enforcement Administration doesn’t currently have the resources to surveil every gas station, smoke shop, and liquor store in the country, and closely policing those settings would mean taking agents off more serious cases, Jim Crotty, a former DEA official, told me.
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Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2025
At the heart of the controversy is a fear that the Chinese government will coerce TP-Link or use its hardware to surveil Americans.
—PC Magazine, 19 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, a new wave of digital tools has emerged to help surveil the surveillants.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Photography has long been complicit in these systems, used to surveil, categorise, and justify power.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
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Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2025
At the heart of the controversy is a fear that the Chinese government will coerce TP-Link or use its hardware to surveil Americans.
—PC Magazine, 19 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, a new wave of digital tools has emerged to help surveil the surveillants.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Photography has long been complicit in these systems, used to surveil, categorise, and justify power.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surveil
Verb
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Because the museum monitored call volume and length, Rachel stayed on the line.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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As a young environmental scientist, David Epstein spent his days hunched over a plot of warming permafrost, monitoring carbon emissions bubbling up from the melt.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Close had opened his eyes long enough to spy Sahlins and insist, for the last time, that improv was a legitimate art form.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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Stroll a path and look down and spy some smiling sunflowers hidden in the bushes.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Harry suggested that information had come from eavesdropping on his phone calls or having private investigators snoop on him.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Untrustworthy employees There have been cases where employees at security companies snooped through camera feeds.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 Dec. 2025
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“Surveil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveil. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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