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watchdogs

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plural of watchdog

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Noun

There aren’t any observers there to do the measurement or to collapse the wave function.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
While the result is not in doubt, external observers will be paying close attention to voter turnout and the margin of United Russia’s victory for any signs of public discontent after more than four-and-a-half years of war.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of observers

Noun

Animal-rights activists last year held long and often contentious debates over the hunt, buying up about one-third of the permits themselves to keep them from hunters’ hands.

— Zoey Thomas, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
When hunters harvest a deer or turkey, they are required to fill out a harvest tag, sign it and keep the harvest tag with the animal until it is processed for consumption.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of hunters

Noun

In the film, robotic sentinels have been constructed to kill all mutants and any humans harboring them.

— Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
Here and there, fire, wind, and flood would have broken the forest into a mosaic of old and new, grass and forest, shrubs and sentinels.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

Definition of sentinels

Noun

Investors and Federal Reserve watchers are now penciling in the first rate hike in three years on Wednesday.

— Matt Stiles, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
Next season, industry watchers should scan beyond the runway galleries and check whether shows have companion resale drops going live the same day, because those tend to sell out inside the first hour.

— Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of watchers

Noun

In humans, traits such as neuroticism and recklessness appear to have some evolutionary basis—emerging perhaps to provide our species with sentries who alerted us to threats, and with explorers who led the way to new food sources.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Finally, unable to stand down the household guard on her own, Alicent confesses her scheme to Helaena, who orders the sentries on the ramparts to hold fire when Rhaenyra flies in on Syrax.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026

Definition of sentries

Noun

Traders positioned watchmen along the shoreline, scanning the horizon for incoming vessels.

— Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026
Local officials like Allen qualify that the question of using AI surveillance in communities big and small comes down to who’s watching the watchmen.

— Noah Daly August 26, Idaho Statesman, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of watchmen

Noun

The training keepers this summer — those who traveled and practiced with the USMNT throughout the World Cup but weren’t rostered — were Kochen and Andrew Rick, a 20-year-old Philadelphia Union backup.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
So Wingard amicably parted ways with Godzilla’s keepers in order to reconnect with the types of films that first put him on the map.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of keepers

Noun

Among defensive linemen, PFF rated Biggers, Cooper and Beal as Miami’s best run defenders Sunday, while ranking Uche, Herring and Seiler as the three worst.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
With three Panthers defenders in hot pursuit, Walker slowed down and stuck his rear end out, cutting off linebacker Princely Umanmielen and making certain Monangai would get the last half of his big run without being touched.

— Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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