surveilling

verb

present participle of surveil
as in spying

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  1. spying
  2. monitoring
  3. snooping
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  • Why does English football view spying as a heinous crime while other countries openly admit to using drones to study upcoming opponents?
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Just across the sea lie North Korea, China and Russia, which all have powerful spying capacities that Japan isn’t fully equipped to fend off.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
Definition of spying
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  • As the outbreak spreads and kills people faster than any other outbreak of the disease in history, a major source of concern for monitoring efforts is miners constantly on the move and in hard-to-reach, unsafe territories.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The Justice Department said approximately four attorneys from its Civil Rights Division are monitoring polls in Miami-Dade.
    — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of monitoring
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  • Cady had injected some narcotic into a Georgia peach to knock Natalie out ahead of his confrontation with Crystal on the houseboat, but Ray snooping around on the Bowdens’s behalf led to this deadly improvisation.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 10 July 2026
  • Her mother has become a fan but didn’t start out that way, unaware her high school had a soccer team until Garbowski went snooping in an old yearbook.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Definition of snooping
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