surveilled

verb

past tense of surveil
as in monitored

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  1. monitored
  2. spied
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  • This discipline focuses on how models and agents are orchestrated, contextualized, governed, monitored and managed throughout their lifecycle.
    — Lakshmanan Alagappan, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In a letter that year to Moore, the agency’s secretary, EPA Region 1 administrator David Cash noted that the EPA had monitored the situation in Vermont for well over a decade.
    — Jonathan Mingle, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2026
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  • At a press conference yesterday NASA presented its preliminary findings, which touch on everything from the moon’s surprisingly colorful craters to a series of curious flashes that the astronauts spied in lunar shadows.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The tourists, having sent home seven players and their coaching staff mid-series, made four changes but really only spied solace in the performance of Razaullah Khan, one of three debutants.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
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