sentinel
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"When you only have a handful of species that can persist in environments like that, and they're really sensitive to change, those serve as really good sentinel taxa," Adams said.
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
The mean rescue sentinel did not think so.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024
The church stood empty like a silent sentinel over a small cemetery next to it.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024
Beal noted one of the sentinel signs that a farm has been infected is dead barn cats that have drunk the infected, raw milk.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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