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"text": "The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.\nAlexandre of London v. Indem. Ins. Co., 182 F. Supp. 748, 750 (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) (1960), cited in Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001) p. 861"
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "overvåge"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "valvoa"
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "övervaka"
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "valvoa"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "surveiller"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "überwachen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "megfigyel"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "vigiar"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "To keep someone or something under surveillance",
"word": "övervaka"
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