monitored

past tense of monitor
as in watched
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 monitored The 20-minute call, which Aris believes the military monitored, offered a rare glimpse of how the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate is being held. — Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026 The Dutch spies who monitored the Alpha account noted that all of it was sent by a bank in Azerbaijan in American dollars. — Matthew Cole, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026 To enroll in the trial, take the drug and be monitored and get the follow-up data without having to travel. — Gerry Smith, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 The company said a donation will be made to support equine welfare charities globally, adding the American Humane Society monitored the animals during the project, and that none were harmed. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 The advisory also raises concerns about private communications, warning Americans that emails, texts and social media activity could be monitored by Chinese authorities. — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The distillery actually reopened in 2021, but of course the whisky being made there now is very different from what is in the leftover casks, which are still being matured and monitored by Diageo. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026 Others have said the declining lobster population needs to be more closely monitored. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Potentially containing trillions of parameters — values learned during training — frontier models require vast computing resources, largely confining them to data centers, where they can be more easily monitored and, in principle, switched off. — Robert Hart, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monitored
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  • Reporting from Tel Aviv Israelis this morning are voting in an election being closely watched in the United States.
    — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Rae, trapped in a ghetto in Novogrudok, watched the Nazis murder her mother and one of her sisters.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
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  • But the scenes — his body covered in medical equipment, his limbs not moving, his teammates down on a knee — certainly created cause for concern.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The still-pristine white marble stone stood out compared to the neighboring grave, holding Bailey’s sister Eliza, covered in grime and moss collected over the decades.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

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“Monitored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monitored. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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