surveyance

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China is known to have reactors, and both air surveyance and ground spying have reported a large reactor complex near Paotow in Inner Mongolia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rest had a big chair and a surveyance a cold accumulation of nausea, and even more than that, they had a disappointment.

From Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Stein, Gertrude

The afternoon progressed rapidly, and B. and I were continually surrounded by a mass of fellow classmates throughout our surveyance of guns, cannons, and assorted weapons.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann

Ye fathers, and ye mothers eke also, Though ye have children, be it one or mo', Yours is the charge of all their surveyance,* *supervision While that they be under your governance.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing