monitor
noun
(especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
monitored
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past participleof monitor.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof monitor.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
monitornoun(especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
Example Sentences
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From these consoles, teams monitored weather and wind conditions, and issued the all-important “go” if things were right, or “no go” if changes needed to be made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
To investigate whether spiders experience genuine sleep and whether that sleep includes different stages, the researchers closely monitored Portia fimbriata over several days and nights.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
The victim's family said the shooter was known to the authorities, and demanded to know whether he had been properly monitored.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
OpenAI’s Pachocki called the reporting “confused” in a post on X, but raised his own concerns about kick-starting an industrywide race into developing AI models that can’t be monitored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
To prove that the two of them were in cahoots, an ABI agent asked Myers to meet Walter McMillian at a store while agents monitored the interaction.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
