Thesaurus results for MONITORING

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noun

as in observation

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monitoring

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verb

present participle of monitor

as in watching

to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose police regularly monitor that road to record traffic density and to catch speeders

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Recent Examples of monitoring

Noun

Gemini's agents can assist with contract review and redlining, legal and policy research, regulatory monitoring, drafting NDAs, preparing documents for redaction, creating contracting playbooks and handling data-subject access requests. — Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 And a monitoring agency run by the British military said an unknown projectile struck a tanker ship on Saturday north of Khasab, Oman, in the strait. — Konstantin Toropin, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026 The public notice was seen as an important and logical step in the long and lumbering process of monitoring and potentially regulating the most powerful technology the world has ever seen. — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 His newsrooms, including the Kathmandu Post, have deployed all their assets to cover the tragedy, and to provide Nepalis with clear, accurate information on emergency relief, river monitoring, and other immediate needs. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 Moonshot also conducted online threat monitoring for Team USA in both the Paris 2024 Olympics, and the Milano-Cortina 2026 games. — Odette Yousef, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026 From a 10-mile corridor to one suspicious shaft The problem with relying on one monitoring method is that each technology sees only part of the picture. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026 The conflict has killed at least 59,000 people killed, according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a conflict monitoring group. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 So that’s a situation worth monitoring as the Giants go through their cutdown to the 53-man roster this weekend. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026

Verb

Repeating that process could happen, but the front office and Taylor will be monitoring the situation closely. — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Jackie, who had been monitoring the situation, later brought Sandy a fish as a reward. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 Lifeguards are monitoring the beach to make sure everyone stays safe. — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 The hurricane center is no longer monitoring a third system west of Portugal for tropical development. — Robin Webb, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026 Uncommon Cacao monitors every link in its supply chain – physically monitoring the beans to ensure quality and tracking how money is being exchanged. — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026 As the outbreak spreads and kills people faster than any other outbreak of the disease in history, a major source of concern for monitoring efforts is miners constantly on the move and in hard-to-reach, unsafe territories. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026 Jennette has accused Debra of monitoring her excessively, performing inappropriate physical exams and continuing to shower her well into her teenage years. — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Creators described feeling hypersensitive to how their posts performed, and spending more and more time each day monitoring them. — Julianna Pillemer, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monitoring

Noun

Official homeless counts show RV numbers plunging in this 400-square-mile expanse, but wild statistical swings and locals’ on-the-ground observations suggest serious miscounts and an illusory improvement.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Since its establishment in 2025, the border task force has conducted tens of thousands of detection and monitoring patrols and thousands of observation flights, the task force said.

— Mike Stone, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of observation

Verb

Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Owen Wolff, 21, was just a small child back then, watching his father play for MLS glory and represent America with the United States Men’s National Team.

— PJ Green August 28, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of watching

Noun

Fundy Dark-Sky Preserve, New Brunswick Fundy National Park offers reasonably dark skies and accessible observing locations along the Bay of Fundy coast.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 19 July 2026
Swift receives more annual observing requests than any NASA facility except the James Webb Space Telescope, and its scientific portfolio is broad, extending to comets and planets in other solar systems.

— Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026

Definition of observing

Verb

Pack a tube of petroleum jelly (Vaseline) in your first aid kit instead of antibiotic ointment and remember to flush all scrapes and cuts with copious amounts of clean water before covering them with the jelly.

— Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Ground surveys can provide more detailed information at a particular site, but covering an entire subway corridor that way would be difficult.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of covering

Noun

The offenses range from non-law enforcement uses like stalking ex-partners to abusive policing tactics like aggressively following people across state lines to justify traffic stops.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 26 Aug. 2026
None of this means license-plate-reading technology has no place in policing.

— Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of policing

Noun

Twinvis is a passive radar based on the latest digital technology that can be used for wide-area military airspace surveillance or civil air traffic control, according to a press release.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
Tanks and armored vehicles were affected first, as persistent surveillance and FPV strikes made operating near the front more dangerous.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of surveillance

Noun

Another win was with a European car maker that replaced its next-gen Endpoint Detection and Response, legacy SIEM, and legacy vulnerability management product with an eight-figure net-new Falcon Flex.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Florida is launching a new initiative to encourage more students to choose careers in emergency management, which the governor announced a week after a shakeup in leadership at the state’s Department of Emergency Management.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of management

Noun

As part of this, ACFM is partnering with global marketing and advertising agency Innocean to co-host the ‘Cinema by Brand 2026’ competition, with the Producers Guild of Korea (PGK) responsible for the selection process and production supervision.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
She was sentenced to eight years in prison and three years of extended supervision.

— Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026

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