as in watches
to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose
police regularly monitor that road to record traffic density and to catch speeders
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Recent Examples of monitors
Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The upcoming Apple show The Savant, starring Jessica Chastain as a woman who monitors and engages with white supremacists online, tries to address these difficult matters too.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
The cameras connect with AI software that monitors each individual bee and identifies its needs.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
The Cook Political Report, which monitors elections nationwide, classifies the race as a pure toss-up.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors online threats, in July tipped the FBI to accounts that later would be tied to Desmond.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
Last year, 267 people died at railroad crossings, according to the Federal Railroad Administration, which monitors the safety of rail crossings nationwide.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors online threats, tipped the FBI to 16-year-old Desmond Holly’s accounts, Oren Segal, the organization’s senior vice president of counter-extremism and intelligence, said in a statement Monday.
—Shelly Bradbury, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
The technical feat Fonseca pulled off involves a Python script that monitors the game memory through the Dolphin emulator, sends dialogue context to AI models like GPT-5 or Gemini, and writes the responses back into the GameCube's RAM.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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With Wednesday’s fatal shooting of three officers in rural Pennsylvania, more than three dozen law enforcement officers have been killed by hostile means in the line of duty in 2025, according to a national nonprofit organization that monitors such figures.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The upcoming Apple show The Savant, starring Jessica Chastain as a woman who monitors and engages with white supremacists online, tries to address these difficult matters too.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
The cameras connect with AI software that monitors each individual bee and identifies its needs.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
The Cook Political Report, which monitors elections nationwide, classifies the race as a pure toss-up.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors online threats, in July tipped the FBI to accounts that later would be tied to Desmond.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
Last year, 267 people died at railroad crossings, according to the Federal Railroad Administration, which monitors the safety of rail crossings nationwide.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors online threats, tipped the FBI to 16-year-old Desmond Holly’s accounts, Oren Segal, the organization’s senior vice president of counter-extremism and intelligence, said in a statement Monday.
—Shelly Bradbury, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
The technical feat Fonseca pulled off involves a Python script that monitors the game memory through the Dolphin emulator, sends dialogue context to AI models like GPT-5 or Gemini, and writes the responses back into the GameCube's RAM.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monitors
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Start With Single Day Resort Heli-Skiing Mention heli-skiing to someone who reads ski magazines or watches movies but has not actually done it, and what comes to mind is almost always remote mountain lodges deep in the wilderness, where small groups go for a week of heli-skiing, day in and day out.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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During the rare lull in service, McPherson watches over this scene from the bar, catching up with longtime customers and friends from the neighborhood.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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The outcome was never publicly disclosed, though Chinese space observers speculated that the trial may not have gone as planned, according to SCMP.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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During the greetings, some observers noted that the president, 79, did not bow and the first lady, 55, did not curtsy while shaking hands with Charles and Camilla, as well William and Kate.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
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Swift announced The Life of a Showgirl, her LP co-produced with Max Martin and Shellback, in mid-August, and has since shared several vinyl variants with different album covers for the record.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
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The recall covers power banks with model numbers A1647, A1652, A1257, A1681 and A1689 with serial numbers listed on the back or side of the device.—
Daniel Orton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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Tahlequah previously made global headlines in 2018 for carrying a dead calf for over 1,000 miles across 17 days, demonstrating what researchers believe is mourning behavior among orcas.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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One of the main enforcers of H-2A rules, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, last year had one of the lowest levels of investigators since the H-2A program was launched in the 1980s, Rutgers University researchers found.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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