surveillant

Examples of surveillant in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web The consequences of that world for the surveillant as well as the surveilled is a lesson for this day and age for sure. Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surveillant
Noun
  • This time, Libertarian nominee Eric Joss dropped out in early September and endorsed Evans, a move that was seen by some observers as improving the GOP candidate’s odds in a close race.
    Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • That helped fuel the walloping Democrats received locally and nationally in Tuesday’s election, observers say.
    Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • With a squad of rebels fanned out to watch for army patrols or helicopters, the unit commander and I and a few others talked for four hours.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Mexican authorities stated that a National Guard patrol came under fire after encountering two suspicious trucks.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Three-story red brick buildings stand like sentries and slides and swings adorned the front yards of nearby homes.
    Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Paramount has the usual range of lollipop trees and box spirals, which stand like sentries at front doors in London’s more expensive neighborhoods.
    Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Seems dolphins are one of the major biological sentinels of our plastic pollution.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
  • But it’s had many lives: a residence for noble families, a Nazarene college, a sentinel of resilience that resisted Napoleonic invasions and endured the dark days of Nazi rule.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

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“Surveillant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveillant. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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