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Noun
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The agreement comes after intense scrutiny over China’s intelligence operations in Cuba, after earlier reports in 2023 that Beijing and Havana might have inked a deal to build a new eavesdropping site.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
26 Aug. 2025 -
Colleagues would talk for hours with the powerful and the secretive; a conversation with Julian Assange required technological methods that we were not permitted to discuss, to discourage eavesdropping.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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For the Chinese supplier faced with growing uncertainties, tapping a different market may simply be the safer bet.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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Frazier kept tapping his own face, either to will himself on or simply to try to clear his limited vision.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The biggest Flock controversy centers on allegations that law enforcement has abused the company’s surveillance network to target women, immigrants, and people engaging in legal activity outside their home states.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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For a community that has historically faced discrimination, the surveillance potential of AI assistive technologies represents a genuine threat to autonomy and dignity.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Myles Graham, Aaron Chiles and Jaden Robinson struggled to balance spying the mobile USF signal caller with upholding UF’s zone coverage on crossing routes.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Pentagon has deployed unmanned aircraft for spying missions over the Black Sea, with one drone downed by a Russian fighter jet in March 2023.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Researchers extracted location data from the photos to track the kids through satellites and reconnaissance.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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The military could also adopt the MAV for reconnaissance missions.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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What’s most important is to build the habit of monitoring your spending habits.—
True Tamplin,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Given their constraints, the most plausible near-term roles are simple, repetitive, or hazardous tasks in structured spaces, moving totes, staging parts, and monitoring routine operations, where their slower pace or limited dexterity won’t bottleneck the entire line.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Bryan Marcus said it is handled on a case by case basis, on how best the district can support and guide an observation.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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The smock is designed to prevent self-harm and is part of broader safety measures implemented for individuals under heightened observation.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Potential trouble arises when the wily victim of Danny’s, Pauline, starts snooping around the house, hears Danny’s voice and starts to bargain for her silence.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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In the film, Shy is played by Jay Lycurgo, an alternately sensitive and intimidating young actor in his breakout role, and the bag doesn’t appear until midway through, when the film crew go snooping without permission in the students’ room.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Wiretapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiretapping. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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