be watchful
Example Sentences
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We should continue to be watchful and concerned about what these agents can do and why they’re out there, as well as demand responsibility from the people who make them.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
At low emotional tide, Sessa’s Tony can also be watchful and quiet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Jordi Serra-Cobo warns that "the results should serve to take preventive measures and be watchful against possible transmission of the hepatitis E virus from wild boars to the citizens of the Barcelona metropolitan area."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
"It has jumped into mammals. We still need to be watchful that if it does make that jump what happens to the virus and can it make it more able to jump into humans?"
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
For the first few months in the White House, I felt the need to be watchful over everything.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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