surveillance
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Putting her career and reputation on the line, and risking more surveillance, Smith chose to place the safety and well-being of others first, and often paid the price.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat is an uncrewed aircraft, developed with the Royal Australian Air Force, to fly alongside crewed fighter jets carrying out electronic warfare and surveillance and to help multiply forces.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Sonny D, an AI researcher who declined to provide his last name because of surveillance concerns, is involved with a group called AI Action that focuses on issues such as job displacement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Following the late drama at Fir Park, referee John Beaton's contact details were posted online, with police keeping his home under surveillance.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The man with the mustache posed beside the entryway, smiling like a tourist while his friend snapped a series of surveillance shots.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
The secretive court approves surveillances warrants under Fisa against "agent of a foreign power", mainly to either the FBI or NSA.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2017
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
The soldiers went to bed, and Keyser lay wondering for a while before he took his nap between his surveillances.
From Red Men and White by Remington, Frederic
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John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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