surveil
verb
sur·veil
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surveilled;
surveilling
Definition of surveil
: to subject to surveillance
Examples of surveil in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The only people who would be easy to surveil would be people who didn't care about government surveillance in the first place. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?," 4 Aug. 2019 Despite the efforts of mobile platform developers, many smart phone applications still transmit data that in aggregate can be intercepted, aggregated, and used to surveil their users unprotected by encryption. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?," 4 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'surveil.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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