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watchdogs

noun

plural of watchdog

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Noun

Industry observers view the DOE licensing agreement as an important milestone toward evaluating the commercial viability of the process.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
While the conflict has thus far been driven by advances in aerial drone technology, many observers predicted that the next major battlefield innovation would be the widespread employment of ground robots.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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Aspiring hunters can still sign up for the Florida Python Challenge after completing an online training course.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
A lot depends on chance, relationships with experienced dinosaur hunters, and the weather conditions at excavation sites.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of hunters

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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
At the end of one of the castle’s walkways, after a turn or two—by electric cart, bicycle, or on foot—and with the air filled with the scent of pine, rosemary, and jasmine, the sentinels are waiting, carved into the rock where the fort’s cannons were once located.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

Definition of sentinels

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Meanwhile, industry watchers believe there aren’t enough films geared to women or Black or Hispanic ticket buyers, three demographics that often turn out for movies that are produced with them in mind.

— Brent Lang, Variety, 15 July 2026
According to a post on Threads by his brother Charlie Georgiou, who appeared on Love Island USA season seven, Zach’s TikTok account was banned after angry Love Island watchers mass-reported it.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Definition of watchers

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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
The soldiers would have stayed as sentries before and after the performance, symbolically guarding the legacy of Taiwan’s founder.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of sentries

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Francis Ford Coppola meditates on the question of who is watching the watchmen in The Conversation, a neo-noir mystery thriller about the human side of surveillance.

— Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
Ideas like reparative journalism and sousveillance — an antonym for surveillance, concerning watching the watchmen in a reversal of power — earn fleeting mentions, but are never the focus of actual inquiry.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026

Definition of watchmen

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Special high-flow racing cylinder heads feature CNC porting, competition valves, springs, seats and keepers designed to work with new high-lift/duration cams.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 July 2026
The alligator that became a sensation in Chicago after turning up in a Humboldt Park lagoon last month is healthy and enjoying the good life in sunny Florida, keepers at his new home said.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026

Definition of keepers

Noun

Below, Nico O’Reilly is on the goal line at the far post, away from the eye line of the opposition defenders, who are preoccupied with his team-mates.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Despite handwringing from the powers that be, genre defenders argued that was a literary history behind Sky of Love and its contemporaries.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

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