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as in custodian
a person or group that watches over someone or something
hired a watchman to patrol the factory at night
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Recent Examples of watchman
An example: Sip and Polina have been thrown into Ian Mayfair’s home prison (a must for every supernatural villain property), complete with iron bars and a surly watchman, but this turns out to be an extremely minor setback.
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
Soon watchmen spotted six people with automatic rifles heading towards them in a speed boat.
—Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Bethlehem Steel bought weapons for 50 guards at its Sparrows Point shipyard; local factories and power plants armed their watchmen, too.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
Although this use of quantum media—media that count, quantify or enumerate—to more closely monitor the watchman’s activities seemed to work for several nights, he was eventually found sleeping in the engine room, having attached the pedometer to a piston rod.
—Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
Soon watchmen spotted six people with automatic rifles heading towards them in a speed boat.
—Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Bethlehem Steel bought weapons for 50 guards at its Sparrows Point shipyard; local factories and power plants armed their watchmen, too.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
Although this use of quantum media—media that count, quantify or enumerate—to more closely monitor the watchman’s activities seemed to work for several nights, he was eventually found sleeping in the engine room, having attached the pedometer to a piston rod.
—Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for watchman
Noun
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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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To mitigate this, business leaders need a data owner, data steward, data custodian and data protection officer in their data governance team.—
Jagadish Gokavarapu,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Red Oak scored back-to-back TDs in the second period, as Thomas powered in for a two-yard TD run and Middleton scored on a 17-yard keeper.—
Mike Waters,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 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
Noun
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Her challengers have highlighted these controversies as evidence the city is due for a changing of the guard.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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The castle itself is an enemy in its own right, shifting and breaking around the slayers to throw them off guard and keep them apart.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
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Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a janitor who gets transformed into a grotesque mutant after a bizarre accident.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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But with Winston’s newfound powers as the Toxic Avenger, Garbinger soon comes to regret his decision to neglect the janitor-turned-superhero who dispatches of the bad guys in particularly gruesome ways.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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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Leaders who grasp this framework will see themselves not just as managers of tasks but as architects of signals, stewards of patterns, cultivators of pathways, and guardians of heuristics.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Eventually, the warden showed up and welcomed them to el infierno—hell.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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As for the bear, two wardens with AGFC responded to the scene and found the animal still in the area.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
6 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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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
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Instead, have a non-breastfeeding caretaker take charge of the post-feeding settling process, recommends Golshevksy.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
7 Sep. 2025
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Meet Paddy Lynch — undertaker and caretaker of a quirky collection of Detroit businesses.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Watchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/watchman. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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