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Recent Examples of surveil
Many locals see them as a nuisance that take away jobs and surveil neighborhoods with their extensive array of cameras.
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
The back-and-forth revolves around Anthropic's push to bar the military from using its AI model Claude to surveil Americans or power fully autonomous weapons.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Now, the men guard their towns from mountain watch posts and surveil 100 cartel gunmen camped out a few miles (kilometers) away using their own drones.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
Now, the men guard their towns from mountain watch posts and surveil 100 cartel gunmen camped out a few miles away using their own drones.
—Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
The back-and-forth revolves around Anthropic's push to bar the military from using its AI model Claude to surveil Americans or power fully autonomous weapons.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Now, the men guard their towns from mountain watch posts and surveil 100 cartel gunmen camped out a few miles (kilometers) away using their own drones.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
Now, the men guard their towns from mountain watch posts and surveil 100 cartel gunmen camped out a few miles away using their own drones.
—Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
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That could mean using drones to monitor a ship's movements, using intelligence to know a ship's origin or destination, using reconnaissance aircraft like the E-2 Hawkeye or helicopters that are launched from an aircraft carrier.—
Luis Martinez,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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As law enforcement monitored their suspects, officers learned they were allegedly involved in drug trafficking in different Baltimore-area locations.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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And then head out to spy for local birds and native plants at the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area in the San Fernando Valley where San Fernando Valley Audubon Society keeps a watchful eye to maintain its vibrancy.—
Daily News,
Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The lush property is a nature lover’s dream with its tropical garden and opportunities to spy native species from iguanas to flamingos.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026
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Determined to spy her way out of Gilead, Daisy uses the tea party as a chance to snoop around Commander MacKenzie’s study.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2026
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Anymore, which will allow subscribers to snoop at a deep level on just about anyone in the world; the war against the data eaters, the name suggests, is long since lost, and is none of your business, anyway.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Surveil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveil. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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