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as in guards
a person or group that watches over someone or something
in his role as warden of the school, a principal must provide a safe environment for the students
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as in keepers
a person who takes care of a property sometimes for an absent owner
served as warden for the country estate
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Recent Examples of wardens
Former wardens criticized the prison system's drug-treatment program and inmate security classification practices.
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Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Between tireless searches for survivors and cleanup work, the wardens pushed aside desks to make room for cots in classrooms and showered in bare locker rooms.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Between tireless searches for survivors and cleanup work, the wardens pushed aside desks to make room for cots in classrooms and showered in bare locker rooms.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wardens
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Dermish launched businesses to support the industry, offering everything from guards for drill sites to housing for oil field workers.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Products like organic soap sprays and organic horticultural oil control smaller pests, while tree guards, netting, and fruit protection bags are musts for deterring birds and large critters such as groundhogs or raccoons, or deer that may damage the tree bark.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Sep. 2025
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Nordstrom Rack Double Keeper Belt Nordstrom Rack is replete with black belts that won’t break the bank — one of them being this slim leather belt with a gold buckle and two gold keepers, which comes in sizes small to extra large.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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Battery life is legit long, and the cameras turn everyday snaps into keepers.—
Shubham Yewale,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Cloudflare, just like custodians of all web properties, has an affirmative duty to secure the service.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Shaping Tomorrow’s Cyber Defenses Agentic AI presents a compelling vision for the future of cybersecurity, one in which intelligent agents function as relentless, adaptive custodians, collaborating with human professionals.—
Perry Carpenter,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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And there is good reason companies still employ janitors to sweep floors despite the invention of the Roomba and commercial versions of robotic sweepers like Avidbots’ Neo.—
Will Yakowicz,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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This includes every level of staffing at local schools, from cafeteria workers to janitors, teachers to playground supervisors.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Aug. 2025
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The rest rely on parents or guardians.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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The entire nest changes, the child changes and the parents/guardians change.—
Tembi Locke,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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Some researchers argue that this background sense of trust is developed in childhood as a person interacts with caretakers.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Sep. 2025
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Still, wildlife advocates, caretakers and scientists remain optimistic about the future.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The sentinels of conventional wisdom settled on the view that the Iraq invasion was one of the great own goals of American foreign policy, and that its beneficiary was Iran.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Choose the West Coast for drama—think craggy cliffs and colossal redwoods rising like ancient sentinels.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Wardens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wardens. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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