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be watchful



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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

Parents also received messages from school principals last week indicating that all was well to that point, but that everyone should be watchful for potential threats.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2023

If she chooses not to, DOJ should be watchful for the first opportunity to seek reassignment by the 11th Circuit.

From Slate Jun. 12, 2023

People have every right to be watchful as those charged in a 2020 downtown Seattle shooting move through King County Superior Court.

From Seattle Times Mar. 3, 2023

But now I understand the gravity of what I was proposing— that a four-year-old child be watchful, prudent, and shrewd, that I curtail your happiness, that you submit to a loss of time.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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