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Recent Examples of surveillantThe consequences of that world for the surveillant as well as the surveilled is a lesson for this day and age for sure.—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
The Role of the United States To claim that the U.S. is merely a passive observer is both inaccurate and misleading.
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Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
But given that both the lander and tanker Starships will use up most of their propellant just getting into orbit, some independent observers estimate as many as 10 to 20 launches will be needed to gas up the lander for the flight to the moon.
The tree had long been a way marker and memory maker: a site of wedding proposals and remembrance ceremonies, a sentry in photos from one-in-a-lifetime family vacations, taped to fridges across the world.
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Amelia Nierenberg,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Anduril makes everything from small drones to sentry towers used to police the U.S.-Mexico border systems to enable pilotless vehicles.
Conservationists Annemarie van Doorn and Luke Playford watch over the region like sentinels.
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Angus Watson,
CNN Money,
25 June 2025
Ser Gareth ignored him, scanning the treeline where the ancient sentinels stood like silent watchers, their branches heavy with snow that had fallen three days past and showed no sign of melting.
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