surveilling

present participle of surveil

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for surveilling
Verb
  • Myles Graham, Aaron Chiles and Jaden Robinson struggled to balance spying the mobile USF signal caller with upholding UF’s zone coverage on crossing routes.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Pentagon has deployed unmanned aircraft for spying missions over the Black Sea, with one drone downed by a Russian fighter jet in March 2023.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • What’s most important is to build the habit of monitoring your spending habits.
    True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Given their constraints, the most plausible near-term roles are simple, repetitive, or hazardous tasks in structured spaces, moving totes, staging parts, and monitoring routine operations, where their slower pace or limited dexterity won’t bottleneck the entire line.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the film, Shy is played by Jay Lycurgo, an alternately sensitive and intimidating young actor in his breakout role, and the bag doesn’t appear until midway through, when the film crew go snooping without permission in the students’ room.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But Barclay said the intention here isn’t to go snooping.
    Adam Stone, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Surveilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveilling. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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