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Recent Examples of watchdog
Affordable housing grantmakers, lenders and urban planning regulators share agency letterhead with cannabis and alcohol industry overseers, professional licensors, car mechanic watchdogs and everyone at the California Horse Racing Board.
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Calmatters, Oc Register, 15 July 2025
After the crash, India’s aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, ordered Air India to carry out additional maintenance on its Boeing 787-8/9 aircraft.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 11 July 2025
Last year, international watchdog Landmine Monitor reported that Russia and other countries had actively used land mines in recent conflicts.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
Paul Diego Craney, spokesman for state watchdog Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, blasted state leaders for not taking action to shut down the network without the assistance of federal authorities.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025
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Calmatters, Oc Register, 15 July 2025
After the crash, India’s aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, ordered Air India to carry out additional maintenance on its Boeing 787-8/9 aircraft.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 11 July 2025
Last year, international watchdog Landmine Monitor reported that Russia and other countries had actively used land mines in recent conflicts.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
Paul Diego Craney, spokesman for state watchdog Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, blasted state leaders for not taking action to shut down the network without the assistance of federal authorities.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for watchdog
Noun
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By the end of 2017, body cameras — a tool for both accountability and investigation — were in use for all Chicago Police Department patrol officers, which allows jurors and courtroom observers to watch, to some extent, a police shooting unfold.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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However, that claim could not be verified, with the judge ruling that the animal patrol officer did not adequately look to see if food and water were provided and if the horses were properly fenced on the property while performing a welfare check on May 7, according to court records.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
11 July 2025
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The game will start with a new setting, with vault hunters leaving previous installments setting of Pandora for the all-new planet of Kairos, and will confront a villain called The Timekeeper.—
Jonathan Zavaleta,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else.—
Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
23 July 2025
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What’s the background for the Hall of Fame? In 2002, a group of local journalists and longtime observers of the cultural scene inducted a dozen worthy individuals into the first class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Cap City Comedy Club.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
13 July 2025
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Skills that people develop in traditional studio and TV roles can translate to digital-first roles, including video editors for influencers and digital media companies, industry observers said.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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One of the pooches was giving birth to puppies as police and animal rescue groups went room by room, recovering scores of dogs from the E. 66th St. home near National Drive in Mill Basin.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2025
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Officials said 15 adult dogs and one 4-week-old puppy were taken from the property, and that later, four of the dogs went into labor and had puppies.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
18 July 2025
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There’s another important way that dogs can benefit the study of cancer—as environmental sentinels.—
Knowable Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Mutu plants her bronze figures in the gardens like sentinels from another world.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Effectively the solar cell allows the drone to act as a CCTV sentry during daylight hours, saving battery power for when a target is spotted.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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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
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Like a dog, if mistreated or provoked, AI can bite back but in general the idea is that like the sheepdog, AI can make the professional (doctor, commando or researcher) do their job in a more effective way.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Examples of this include Labrador retrievers, Shetland sheepdogs, pugs and basset hounds.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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The deaths of at least 27 children and staff at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas have some parents and guardians questioning the safety of summer camps, especially as global warming increases risks of extreme weather.—
Julia Simon,
NPR,
18 July 2025
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All 17 plaintiffs are former foster youth or parents or guardians of former foster youth, and are listed in court documents as John Doe or Jane Doe plaintiffs.—
Theresa Clift
July 18,
Sacbee.com,
18 July 2025
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“Watchdog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/watchdog. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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