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surveillance

[ser-vey-luhns, -veyl-yuhns] / sərˈveɪ ləns, -ˈveɪl jəns /


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The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has a unit that carries out surveillance of retailers to check they're complying with the law.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Some of these air defenses, especially those used for surveillance, are radar-dependent.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

But the fissile material required to build nuclear weapons remains in the country, under the watch of U.S. satellite surveillance.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Unsurprisingly, both Larry and David Ellison are big fans of artificial intelligence, seeing it as a way to streamline their surveillance operations, and for what David Ellison euphemistically calls “cost efficiencies and synergies.”

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

The Bureau had kept surveillance videotapes of comings and goings into the Soviet embassy, filmed from a secret location across the street.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

I had expected to detect some evidences of surveillances, but if any were indeed being observed, the fact was effectively masked.

From The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Rohmer, Sax




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