How to Use watchdog in a Sentence

watchdog

noun

• This is the first time a Brazilian watchdog has seized iPhones.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 24 Nov. 2022
• My Ads, a watchdog group for ways in which the ad industry supports hate speech.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• The watchdog issued the penalty over systems that tracked the idle time of workers’ scanners and measured the speed of scanning.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• That search warrant was reported by the same watchdog group.
  — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• Two of the most important roles are to act as your watchdog against wrongdoing and to be a voice for those who would not otherwise be heard.
  — Steve Coffman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• But the McWaters bill opts for none of the above, and instead, designates the Fed as the regulatory watchdog.
  — Sam Lyman, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• Longer term, the watchdog agency noted, a few large tech platforms that could end up owning the bulk of consumer data.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2022
• The trade-offs illustrate the risk for school officials, budget watchdogs said.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Owner Elon Musk is now suing the media watchdog group for defamation.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• The plan has been endorsed by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• The Springfield Daily News didn’t always fulfill its watchdog role.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
• Police said the teens were taken into custody by the Flushing Shomrim, a Jewish watchdog group.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The amendment comes on the heels of a U.S. government watchdog announcing an audit of Buttigieg's use of government airplanes for some trips.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
• Days of shelling have caused widespread damage to the Zaporizhzhia plant, according to the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• But the company has been plagued by problems since its takeover, not least a scathing report from state watchdog Ofsted in Islington in 2021.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Feb. 2024
• Moskowitz, who specializes in class-action lawsuits, didn’t set out to become a crypto watchdog.
  — Steven Zeitchik and Julian Mark, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
• The watchdog agency also ordered Wells Fargo to pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022
• The bureau is the nation’s financial watchdog agency and was created in 2011 after the Great Recession.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• Gas leak fires and explosions from all types of causes are happening more frequently across the country, a recent report from a watchdog group found.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• Beyond the $300 million question mark, some energy watchdogs warn there’s little means to know whether PG&E is complying with the loan terms and not using it to pay shareholders.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
• Flavors like mango and fruit were an overt attempt to market to underage vapers, tobacco watchdogs said.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
• But sources indicate that in an election year, the Biden antitrust watchdogs might be more interested in looking the other way and ignoring the problem.
  — John Fund, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
• The watchdog agency estimates that $80.4 million in consumer fees were involved as part of double-dipping practices.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
• They were once adored by Italian royals for their disposition as well as for their watchdog mentality.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
• When Beijing mounted a crackdown on hundreds of human rights lawyers in 2015, Mr. Jiang said that all of Chinese society should be concerned with protecting lawyers as watchdogs.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• The United Nations' nuclear watchdog confirmed Friday that the nuclear power plant sites were again able to access the national grid.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2022
• In response, one local watchdog has created a proposal to streamline how progress is reported and the group is now looking for public input.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• And, in the same trial, a financial watchdog informed the court that the defendants had violated a requirement to report any cash transfers amounting to more than $5 million.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Federal watchdog groups have for years criticized the IRS’s paltry training programs.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024