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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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While clean deodorant has become one of the most popular products in body care with a slew of heritage brands tapping in, Covello said the brand received a lot of pushback in the early days.—
Emily Burns,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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Teams are tapping into AI not just to move faster, but to go deeper — delivering the very best creative thinking, immersive storytelling, and future-forward design.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Police also allegedly found a stun gun, a replica pistol, a surveillance camera, drugs and drug paraphernalia at the home.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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While Tranter tinkers and Zuzana monitors the wall of local surveillance footage, Karalis and his team get to work drilling through the wall of the vault.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
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The abrupt rise in deportations and claims of Afghans spying attracted international condemnation.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In that setting, Kelluu will demonstrate how its endurance and GNSS-denied navigation capabilities could support intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions in contested zones.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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Both Moscow and Kyiv utilize drones in various ways, from conducting reconnaissance missions to coordinating and executing strikes, or even as interceptors to take down the other's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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As of Thursday, the NHC was monitoring a disturbance in the Atlantic with an 80 percent chance of cyclone formation over the next seven days.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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America’s retreat from WHO deepens the damage by weakening global systems for monitoring outbreaks, reviewing evidence and maintaining databases such as the Global Burden of Disease.—
Stan Chu Ilo,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Previous modeling systems captured fire and smoke behavior, but gaps remained in data accuracy and field observations.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Colin Frank Wilson, Project Scientist for ESA's Mars orbiters, confirmed that the agency is preparing to attempt observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS during its passage through the solar system.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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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But Barclay said the intention here isn’t to go snooping.—
Adam Stone,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Wiretapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiretapping. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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