watchdog

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Recent Examples of watchdog According 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
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Noun
  • Mop-up and patrol will continue where appropriate to secure and strengthen containment.
    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.
    Mark Phelan, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many observers expect North Korea may get the benefit of Russian missile technology to further its nuclear missile program.
    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.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In her puppy photo, little Ginger sits beside one of her siblings.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Aside from scouting, sending messages or sentry duty, some dogs were trained for direct combat.
    Vic Verbalaitis, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Rows of lights stood like sentries above, adorned with flat visors that guided the glow onto the action.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The survivors watched in terror as their guardian was relieved of his suit.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Watchdog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/watchdog. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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