surveillance
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The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has a unit that carries out surveillance of retailers to check they're complying with the law.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Some of these air defenses, especially those used for surveillance, are radar-dependent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
But the fissile material required to build nuclear weapons remains in the country, under the watch of U.S. satellite surveillance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Unsurprisingly, both Larry and David Ellison are big fans of artificial intelligence, seeing it as a way to streamline their surveillance operations, and for what David Ellison euphemistically calls “cost efficiencies and synergies.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The Bureau had kept surveillance videotapes of comings and goings into the Soviet embassy, filmed from a secret location across the street.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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And with the increased use of the Internet and so that changed the level of technical complexity of the surveillances that the FBI wanted to do.
From MSNBC ● May 30, 2019
"I have conducted surveillances for Triangle in England, in South America, Miami, California, Hong Kong, Peru, Alaska. I travel all over the world doing these surveillances and nothing really changes," Sullivan said.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2015
I am still being surveilled, but now it’s much harder to tie all those small surveillances back to me and ads don’t follow me around.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2015
Del Rosario said the latest Chinese activity in Scarborough Shoal was discussed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, where fresh surveillances pictures were shown.
From Reuters ● Sep. 4, 2013
I had expected to detect some evidences of surveillances, but if any were indeed being observed, the fact was effectively masked.
From The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Rohmer, Sax
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John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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