surveilled

Definition of surveillednext
past tense of surveil

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Verb
  • Additionally, the police source said Nick must be escorted by a sergeant at all times and is monitored with a video camera that is attached to his escorting officer.
    Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers monitored more than 2,000 people for an average of 12 days to track their rest and rhythm activities.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Upon arriving at the James Madison University campus in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains in 1999, Jeff Bourne spied a 12,500-seat football stadium on a campus that only started playing the sport a little more than 25 years earlier.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Where skeptics spied a bubble, the revolution’s leaders saw the dawn of a new era of abundance.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Surveilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveilled. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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