watchful

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Watchful for a Soviet attack from the north, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, as the country’s military is known, were for years concentrated in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four large islands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Watchful pocketing is a mindset they bring there too: “It’s really about making people feel really special,” says Chu.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Watchful uses computer vision as well as data analysis to identify and emulate app changes.

From Reuters • May 25, 2023

In Freeform's "The Watchful Eye," a grifter takes a position as a nanny for a rich family that resides in a grand old apartment building that may require an exorcism.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2023

Watchful eyes and swift rowers belonging to the enemy are keeping guard on Governor’s Island, by which Ezra Lee must row, and it is safer to go under water.

From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Prichard, Sarah J.