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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
She is made superior simply by being a researcher, impartial observer, who must see without the prejudicial lens of her own culture and experience.
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Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Vance 'could be a bridge builder' Political observers say the person who may be most affected by the imbroglio is JD Vance, who has made faith part of his political persona.
Their Tibetan ancestry dates back thousands of years to when they were bred as an interior sentinel in the Buddhist monasteries.
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Katelyn Chef,
Martha Stewart,
12 Apr. 2026
Precedent for this idea comes from Poland, where many cities already use freshwater mussels as living sentinels of water quality, wired with sensors that register when the animals clamp their shells shut in response to pollutants.