watchful

After a watchful start, she shifted gears during the death overs, unleashing a flurry of strokes.

I would find a job and get out on my own, out from under my mother’s watchful eye.

"During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children – empowering, but with watchful guidance."

Camille is an interesting narrator in part because she’s what some might derogatorily call a “passive” character, but whom I read instead as intensely observant and watchful.

But there are things that escape even their watchful eye, such as a pair of earrings.