surveillance
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care, charge, guidance, headship, oversight, regulation, stewardship, superintendence, superintendency, supervision
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The joint patrol follows earlier aerial surveillance flights and the establishment of a joint operations center. — Ryan Browne, Jamie Crawford And Bianca Britton, CNN, "US and Turkish troops conduct first joint ground patrol of Syrian 'safe zone'," 8 Sep. 2019 This is the second time video surveillance was critical in a charge against Dulos. — Dave Altimari, courant.com, "Video Cameras are everywhere — and investigators are using them extensively in the case they are building against Fotis Dulos," 8 Sep. 2019 Protesters want surveillance camera recordings of the raid to be released to determine the truth. — Kin Cheung, BostonGlobe.com, "Protests flare in Hong Kong despite bill’s withdrawal," 6 Sep. 2019 An anti-submarine satellite, Guanlan will significantly increase China's oceanic surveillance abilities with the ability to fire a high-energy pulse on submarines as far down as 1,640 feet. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "China's New Crystals Could Finally Make Laser Weapons a Thing," 4 Sep. 2019 The country seems primarily to be enhancing its domestic surveillance with facial-recognition and other identifying technologies, although U.S.experts say that technology could be quickly put to military use. — The Atlantic, "Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill," 3 Sep. 2019 Its contracts with Goldman protect you from some bank surveillance capitalism. — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, "The spy in your wallet: Credit cards have a privacy problem," 31 Aug. 2019 Such energy-saving kinematics could help improve the efficiency of miniature unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) used for surveillance. — Shweta Narayan, Smithsonian, "How Engineers of New Energy Technology Are Taking Cues From Nature," 31 Aug. 2019 That money would be better spent on public-health systems and surveillance to try to catch outbreaks earlier, says Olga Jonas, a fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute who has previously worked on risk-financing at the World Bank. — The Economist, "The World Bank’s pandemic bonds are not paying out for Ebola," 29 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'surveillance.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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