watchful

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Watchful for a Soviet attack from the north, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, as the country’s military is known, were for years concentrated in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four large islands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Watchful pocketing is a mindset they bring there too: “It’s really about making people feel really special,” says Chu.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Watchful uses computer vision as well as data analysis to identify and emulate app changes.

From Reuters • May 25, 2023

In Freeform's "The Watchful Eye," a grifter takes a position as a nanny for a rich family that resides in a grand old apartment building that may require an exorcism.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2023

The shepherds Watchful, Sincere, and Experience, if not Knowledge, were known of all men, in less pastoral avocations.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.