watchdog

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Recent Examples of watchdog Readers rely on The Sun’s role as a watchdog — one that our news organization views as essential to identifying solutions for the region’s most pressing challenges. Trif Alatzas, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025 Facing a potential veto from Gov. Ned Lamont, the General Assembly agreed Wednesday to delete a portion of a bipartisan bill that would have ended a half century of independence by Connecticut’s elections watchdog. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2025 The package would reduce federal outlays, or spending, by nearly $1.3 trillion over that period, while cutting taxes by $3.75 trillion, the watchdog group said. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 4 June 2025 Seongnam by then was rapidly developing, becoming the site of several projects, and Lee threw himself into local watchdog activism. Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for watchdog
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Noun
  • Police officials have acknowledged in the past that patrol officers across the city are routinely tied down on high-priority calls for service.
    Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
  • Officer Austin Turner has been a Marietta patrol officer for close to four years.
    Katja Ridderbusch, NPR, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Behind the brand, is the Parisian jewelry designer and passionate stone hunter Cyril Bismuth, whose ‘spiritual jewelry’ already has a firm following in the US market.
    Kate Matthams, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • With Badlands set to closely follow the adventures of a young Predator hunter trying to prove himself, this feels like only the beginning for an on-screen expansion of these aliens' history and culture.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Li, had helped build a major data infrastructure and processing system for Wachovia, then one of America's largest banks, and had been a keen observer of startups like WeChat and Alibaba that had transformed payments and banking in his native China.
    Stephen Pastis, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • Any serious observer of foreign policy knows that the U.S. intelligence community is renowned for its research and documentation of genocide.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Best of Bingo The songs in this 30-minute video all focus on a puppy named Bingo.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 30 May 2025
  • On Tuesday cops received a 911 call that a pit bull-mix puppy had chewed off the face of a 6-month-old baby girl, killing her.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • These tools act as governance sentinels, standing guard at the frontier of change.
    Shazia Manus, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • But these silver sentinels go largely unnoticed, their purpose a mystery to the millions who shuffle past.
    Yuvraj Khanna, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The tree had long been a way marker and memory maker: a site of wedding proposals and remembrance ceremonies, a sentry in photos from one-in-a-lifetime family vacations, taped to fridges across the world.
    Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Anduril makes everything from small drones to sentry towers used to police the U.S.-Mexico border systems to enable pilotless vehicles.
    William Hartung, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The film world premiered in the non-competitive Cannes Premiere section, but clinched a peripheral prize with its canine cast member, sheepdog Panda, beating 24 other candidates to win the Palm Dog.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 June 2025
  • The sheepdog lobby is going to be all up in paws about this: [ Irish Post ] The Autonomous Space Robotics Lab (ASRL) at University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) has been working on a tethered ground robot called TREX, which stands for Tethered Robotic Explorer.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Apr. 2015
Noun
  • Moving beyond the initial cost of raising a child, higher education costs typically come prior to the parent/guardian retiring.
    David Kudla, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Police confirmed with county officials that the paternal grandmother was the legal guardian of the girl with sole custody pending the June court appearance.
    Harry Harris, Mercury News, 27 May 2025

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