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as in custodian
a person or group that watches over someone or something
hired a watchman to patrol the factory at night
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Recent Examples of watchman
Who watches the watchmen—or, in Fortune 500 terms, who audits the auditors?
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Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
His grandfather was the city’s first night watchman, and his father served on the school board, city council, and as mayor.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
The original point-and-click survival game challenges players to work a night shift at Freddy's as watchman Mike Schmidt (played by Josh Hutcherson in the movie).
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 27 Oct. 2023
In his first five night-shift stints as watchman at a disused ’80s amusement park/arcade mall — Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place — Mike stares glaze-eyed at security monitors, then drifts into violent 3-D incidents, His circumstance incarnates the hell that Morrissey sings about.
—Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
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Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
His grandfather was the city’s first night watchman, and his father served on the school board, city council, and as mayor.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
The original point-and-click survival game challenges players to work a night shift at Freddy's as watchman Mike Schmidt (played by Josh Hutcherson in the movie).
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 27 Oct. 2023
In his first five night-shift stints as watchman at a disused ’80s amusement park/arcade mall — Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place — Mike stares glaze-eyed at security monitors, then drifts into violent 3-D incidents, His circumstance incarnates the hell that Morrissey sings about.
—Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for watchman
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Third-party custodians are a growing business in Bitcoin, and these third parties manage your keys for you.Korok Ray, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Ultimately, a federal system that endows states with substantial authority can act as a powerful custodian of democracy, one that goes well beyond the mere involvement of state officials in the electoral system.Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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D’Onta Foreman had a 38-yard run on the second play of the drive, and Sam Darnold scored on an option keeper.Dave Birkett, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
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Egan’s 1-yard touchdown run on a fourth-down keeper pulled the Chargers within 28-26 with 4:57 left in the third quarter.Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2022
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Khaleel Sayyed and Walter Bowe, X’s chief guards at the time, would corroborate that statement, as they were both arrested and detained on bogus charges in the days leading up to X’s murder.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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Right guard Quinn Meinerz plays two spots inside Forsyth on the field goal unit.Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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Singing janitor, fan-favorite, and now season champion.Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2024
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The school closed its doors in 1955 after dozens of schoolchildren mysteriously went missing, rumored to be captured and killed by the school's janitor, Charlie McFree.Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2024
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In the older strata, the animals were preserved in three dimensions, often in sleeping positions or in nests, or as a guardian of nests, a predator attacking a mammal, or even dinos locked in a fight.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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In these accounts parents act as guardians and the children are the beneficiaries until the child reaches the age of majority (usually 18, but sometimes 21) in their state.Stephanie Dhue,Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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The accused include a nurse, a journalist, a prison warden, a local councillor, a soldier, lorry drivers and farm workers.Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
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Well, the wardens don’t have power beyond what the law says, right?Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
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Seems dolphins are one of the major biological sentinels of our plastic pollution.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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But it’s had many lives: a residence for noble families, a Nazarene college, a sentinel of resilience that resisted Napoleonic invasions and endured the dark days of Nazi rule.Ann Abel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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Some have even compared him to Paul von Hindenburg, the elderly German caretaker president who agreed to elevate Adolph Hitler to power in 1933.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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Her caretakers offered her fruit platters featuring watermelon carved with the local name spellings for Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Watchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/watchman. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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