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Recent Examples of watchdogAccording to Monitoring Analytics, an independent watchdog of PJM, roughly three-quarters of the increase, totaling over $9 billion, can be attributed to current and projected future demand from data centers.—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Advertisement Advertisement Public discontent towards the Nepalese government has been rising to Monday’s eruption of protests, with 84% of the population believing that corruption is a big problem, according to corruption watchdog Transparency International.—Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Sep. 2025 Aid groups warn that a large-scale evacuation would exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza City, which the world's leading hunger watchdog announced last month was officially suffering from famine as a result of Israeli restrictions on food aid.—Wafaa Shurafa, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025 The Secret Order gives us a teensy peek at the secretive supernatural watchdog agency through the eyes of new recruit Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton), who appears to be able to hear people’s thoughts.—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for watchdog
Mop-up and patrol will continue where appropriate to secure and strengthen containment.
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CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Ford dropped it from the Explorer’s retail lineup, but continues to offer it in police vehicles, which benefit from its ability to power AC and other accessories without running the engine when parked, as patrol vehicles often spend lots of time doing.
Under the new Fish and Wildlife interim pintail harvest strategy, hunters in all four flyways are expected to have a three-pintail daily bag limit option for next year's 2026–'27 season based on this year's breeding population results.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
In yet another sweeping tale of two opposites finding common ground (and a lot of chemistry), Robert Redford starred as a hunter opposite Meryl Streep's aristocrat in what is now Kenya in the 1930s.
Many observers expect North Korea may get the benefit of Russian missile technology to further its nuclear missile program.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
The center of gravity in Dearborn shifted on the news, but the move is what many industry observers say Ford needs to do to deliver the best future technology and attract and retain talent.
Merlin is a cockapoo puppy, a mix between a cocker spaniel and a poodle, and has become an overnight social-media sensation after millions watched his attempt to get some frying bacon.
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Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
In her puppy photo, little Ginger sits beside one of her siblings.
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.
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Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
At the summit, the ruins of the Castle of Monsanto perch atop the craggy heights like a stone sentinel—offering sweeping views over the Beira Baixa plains.
Jango, a six-and-a-half-year-old mix of bluetick coonhound, treeing walker coonhound, cattle dog, and Shetland sheepdog, was adopted from a shelter in southern Indiana just before the pandemic hit.
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Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Aug. 2025
As long as the newly estranged parents put on a good face, the children—and their adorable sheepdog Panda (who won the prestigious Palme Dog award at Cannes)—seem to take the split in stride.
At the center stands a bronze Caryatid by Louis Félix Chabaud, a classical guardian presiding over a resolutely modern space and anchoring the atrium from below.
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Erica Wertheim Zohar,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
The survivors watched in terror as their guardian was relieved of his suit.
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