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surveillance

[ser-vay-luhns, -vayl-yuhns] / sərˈveɪ ləns, -ˈveɪl jəns /


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They demanded an end to AI surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, as well as soaring San Francisco rents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

President William Ruto has said that surveillance and rapid response teams are on the ground, building on the systems that the country adopted following the outbreak in DR Congo in May.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the U.S. stock market, exchanges use surveillance to identify suspicious activity and the people behind it, while brokerages must know the identity of their customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Russia warned Wednesday against "false" information as reports emerged of a second suspected case of plague in Siberia, with Washington and Brussels calling for transparency and neighbouring Mongolia tightening health surveillance.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Dad’s even lined the perimeter with additional surveillance cameras.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

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 Frederic Remington




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