watchful

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Watchful for a Soviet attack from the north, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, as the country’s military is known, were for years concentrated in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four large islands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Watchful pocketing is a mindset they bring there too: “It’s really about making people feel really special,” says Chu.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Screenshots and video Watchful shared with Reuters showed the chatbot featuring prominently on TikTok's interface as a ghost-shaped icon, which users can tap while watching videos to have text-based conversations and get help finding content.

From Reuters • May 25, 2023

In Freeform's "The Watchful Eye," a grifter takes a position as a nanny for a rich family that resides in a grand old apartment building that may require an exorcism.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2023

Watchful, calm, and steadfast, the Confederate waited, through the months of preparation, to meet the new advance—so disposing part of his force about Winchester as to prevent the favorite Valley-road On-to-Richmond.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.