surveillance
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"Three days under surveillance, that doesn't bother us at all," one passenger, Roland Seitre, said just before taking off from Tenerife earlier Sunday.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
On 23 April 2025 he was sentenced by Milton Keynes magistrates to a youth rehabilitation order with intensive supervision and surveillance, ending on 22 October 2025.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Attendees at one point hurried to avoid a tethered surveillance drone crashing to the ground from above their heads.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
There have been 890 laboratory-confirmed cases of hantavirus disease reported in the U.S. since surveillance began in 1993, according to the most recent data from the CDC.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
After several nights of fruitless surveillance, Butler plucked up enough courage to ask....
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Vocabulary lists containing surveillance
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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