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geolocate

American  
[jee-oh-loh-kayt, jee-oh-loh-kayt] / ˌdʒi oʊˈloʊˌkeɪt, ˌdʒi oʊ loʊˈkeɪt /

verb (used with object)

  1. to determine the location of (something or someone) by means of GPS or other positioning technology.


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Pegasus can be installed surreptitiously onto a target's smartphone and read messages, geolocate and secretly turn on the device's camera and microphone -- effectively turning the phone into a pocket spy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

Its experts can set up a dense network of direction-finding sensors and radars to identify and geolocate threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

BBC Verify could not definitively geolocate the footage.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025

They mined tweets for both common and scientific names of the pathogen and were able to geolocate the sources.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024

Reuters was not able to geolocate or verify the date of the video, but Prigozhin's comments and some posts in the pro-Wagner channels suggested it was filmed in Africa.

From Reuters ● Aug. 21, 2023

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