surveillance
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Dubai police say the arrest was made on Wednesday, 15 April after intensive search and surveillance operations.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
“Risk is accumulating in a way that current surveillance isn’t capturing,” said Evan Eskew, a disease ecologist at the University of Idaho and a co-author of the study.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Eskew said expanding surveillance, particularly for species already known to carry zoonotic pathogens, could help identify risks earlier and prevent outbreaks from spreading.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
When Gavalas reported seeing a car just like his own, Gemini told him it was part of a government surveillance operation and told him to abort the mission.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
My first view of my sister's boyfriend, then, was via aerial surveillance.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Vocabulary lists containing surveillance
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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