surveillance
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An earlier audit of the museum’s security protocols found that the Louvre’s video surveillance and physical security systems relied on a weak password, “LOUVRE.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
His experience as an immigrant living in a Western country felt like he was under constant scrutiny and surveillance, to the point that it affected his personality and his stand-up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Anduril is a military technology company, and it produces drones and surveillance systems.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The kerfuffle lingered in headlines on Wednesday as a news outlet released surveillance video from Art of Play purporting to show Clarkson's visit.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Our phone's in the hallway to make it uncomfortable to use, so if I creep over the landing to my surveillance position I can catch just about everything.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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And with the increased use of the Internet and so that changed the level of technical complexity of the surveillances that the FBI wanted to do.
From MSNBC ● May 30, 2019
The secretive court approves surveillances warrants under Fisa against "agent of a foreign power", mainly to either the FBI or NSA.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2017
I am still being surveilled, but now it’s much harder to tie all those small surveillances back to me and ads don’t follow me around.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2015
Del Rosario said the latest Chinese activity in Scarborough Shoal was discussed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, where fresh surveillances pictures were shown.
From Reuters ● Sep. 4, 2013
I had expected to detect some evidences of surveillances, but if any were indeed being observed, the fact was effectively masked.
From The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
Vocabulary lists containing surveillance
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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