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View definitions for watch over

watch over

verb as in chaperon

verb as in cover

verb as in cradle

verb as in safeguard

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There were no agents or public relations specialists watching over them.

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Since immigration authorities began raiding fields and neighborhoods, he said, the family doesn’t go out as much as before, and they’re always watching over their shoulders when they’re on the streets.

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It makes me think of Ma being so confident that Grandma’s spirit is still watching over us.

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“He was watching over me,” Wright, who played for Beam at Laney in 2018, said after the Bears’ 19-17 victory on Sunday .

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County incarcerates about 13,000 people — including roughly 1,500 women — throughout its network of jails watched over by sheriff’s deputies.

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