How to Use watchdog in a Sentence

watchdog

1 of 2 noun

• This is the first time a Brazilian watchdog has seized iPhones.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 24 Nov. 2022
• My Ads, a watchdog group for ways in which the ad industry supports hate speech.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• The watchdog issued the penalty over systems that tracked the idle time of workers’ scanners and measured the speed of scanning.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• That search warrant was reported by the same watchdog group.
  — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• Two of the most important roles are to act as your watchdog against wrongdoing and to be a voice for those who would not otherwise be heard.
  — Steve Coffman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• But the McWaters bill opts for none of the above, and instead, designates the Fed as the regulatory watchdog.
  — Sam Lyman, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• Longer term, the watchdog agency noted, a few large tech platforms that could end up owning the bulk of consumer data.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2022
• The trade-offs illustrate the risk for school officials, budget watchdogs said.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Owner Elon Musk is now suing the media watchdog group for defamation.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• The plan has been endorsed by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• The Springfield Daily News didn’t always fulfill its watchdog role.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
• Police said the teens were taken into custody by the Flushing Shomrim, a Jewish watchdog group.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The amendment comes on the heels of a U.S. government watchdog announcing an audit of Buttigieg's use of government airplanes for some trips.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
• Days of shelling have caused widespread damage to the Zaporizhzhia plant, according to the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• But the company has been plagued by problems since its takeover, not least a scathing report from state watchdog Ofsted in Islington in 2021.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Feb. 2024
• Moskowitz, who specializes in class-action lawsuits, didn’t set out to become a crypto watchdog.
  — Steven Zeitchik and Julian Mark, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
• The watchdog agency also ordered Wells Fargo to pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022
• The bureau is the nation’s financial watchdog agency and was created in 2011 after the Great Recession.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• Gas leak fires and explosions from all types of causes are happening more frequently across the country, a recent report from a watchdog group found.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• Beyond the $300 million question mark, some energy watchdogs warn there’s little means to know whether PG&E is complying with the loan terms and not using it to pay shareholders.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
• Flavors like mango and fruit were an overt attempt to market to underage vapers, tobacco watchdogs said.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
• But sources indicate that in an election year, the Biden antitrust watchdogs might be more interested in looking the other way and ignoring the problem.
  — John Fund, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
• The watchdog agency estimates that $80.4 million in consumer fees were involved as part of double-dipping practices.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
• They were once adored by Italian royals for their disposition as well as for their watchdog mentality.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
• When Beijing mounted a crackdown on hundreds of human rights lawyers in 2015, Mr. Jiang said that all of Chinese society should be concerned with protecting lawyers as watchdogs.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• The United Nations' nuclear watchdog confirmed Friday that the nuclear power plant sites were again able to access the national grid.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2022
• In response, one local watchdog has created a proposal to streamline how progress is reported and the group is now looking for public input.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• And, in the same trial, a financial watchdog informed the court that the defendants had violated a requirement to report any cash transfers amounting to more than $5 million.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Federal watchdog groups have for years criticized the IRS’s paltry training programs.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023

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watchdog

2 of 2 verb

• But the firm that’s supposed to watchdog WeWork’s finances wasn’t one of them.
  — Michael Rapoport, Quartz, 17 Jan. 2020
• To watchdog groups, Clark has been a person of interest for months.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
• The site, which has a direct view of the Capitol, was chosen to evoke journalists’ role as government watchdogs.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• Your social media presence is more social justice and media watchdog these days than food.
  — Michael O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2020
• Iran watchdogs have argued, however, that is only a half measure.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Celeb watchdog the Shade Room captured the entire interaction, which went down in the comments section of a post partially showing the album's track list.
  — Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2018
• Government watchdogs argued the law excluded those who might not have applied for chief judge from being considered for the associate judge role.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Some watchdog nonprofit organizations even go as far as saying people should avoid them at all costs.
  — Emily Rekstis, Allure, 27 July 2022
• Last year, law enforcement struggled to keep up with online child abuse as technology companies around the world reported a record-breaking amount of images and videos to watchdog groups.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2021
• Get all the local news, sports, things to do and watchdog reporting from Cincinnati.com and The Enquirer with an unlimited digital access subscription.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Often, critics of the system contend, those officers end up policing in smaller jurisdictions, which may lack the resources to watchdog their conduct.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Spearheaded by Senator Elizabeth Warren, the agency’s main task was to watchdog banks, lenders, securities firms, debt collectors, and so on to try to protect consumers.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• Hello and welcome to Eye on A.I. This past week, 12 data protection watchdogs from around the globe came together to issue a joint statement addressing data scraping and its effects on privacy.
  — Bysage Lazzaro, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
• Government accusations of foreign ownership and tax evasion were widely viewed by human rights watchdogs as attempts to put Rappler out of business and silence one of the loudest critical voices in the press.
  — Regine Cabato, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Prosecutors said small districts lacked the capacity to properly watchdog the A3 schools, which often enrolled thousands of students.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
• The environmental community will be able to watchdog any facility on Earth.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2018
• The commission would take both public and whistleblower tips to refer investigations to watchdog agencies as well as oversee the Ohio inspector general, who handles ethics complaints in the executive branch.
  — cleveland, 1 June 2021
• Facebook’s parent company has a long history of failing to catch ads that violate its rules — including ads for guns and opioids — and then removing them after journalists, watchdogs or everyday users find and report them.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• Ratcliffe sent the intelligence community’s watchdog an investigative referral related to that House GOP report in the fall.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2021
• Meanwhile, the technology has some consumer privacy watchdogs concerned.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2023
• Shioso said the case is being handled by police watchdog the Independent Policing Oversight Authority.
  — Azaz Syed, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
• Subsequent reports showed that the Mexican government had badly botched the investigations and that government personnel were implicated in a cover-up—findings that might never have come to light without the efforts of civil society watchdogs.
  — Ronald J. Deibert, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2022
• But even before its applications to begin human clinical trials, Neuralink repeatedly drew ire from critics and watchdogs concerning its treatment of test animals.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
• Rights watchdogs — like legal aid group HaMoked, which filed the petition on behalf of the Zalabanis — describe such demolitions as collective punishment, leaving uninvolved parents, siblings, and spouses homeless.
  — Isabel Debre, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• Ratcliffe sent the intelligence community’s watchdog an investigative referral on that House report in October.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2020
• Competition watchdogs in the UK and Sweden are investigating potential profiteering.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 29 June 2023
• Lachlan Murdoch has drawn criticism from media watchdogs for what many called Fox News’ increasingly conspiratorial and misinformation-promoting broadcasts.
  — David Hamilton, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
• One of California’s largest immigrant detention facilities, Adelanto has been investigated by government watchdogs over health and safety violations, including disciplinary segregation and detainee exposure to toxic chemicals.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• But the firm that’s supposed to watchdog WeWork’s finances wasn’t one of them.
  — Michael Rapoport, Quartz, 17 Jan. 2020
• To watchdog groups, Clark has been a person of interest for months.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 5 May 2024