watch list
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of watch list
First recorded in 1970–75
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Fitch Ratings recently moved the credit rating of the project’s $1.2-billion senior bond to its negative watch list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Standouts for your weekend watch list: If you’re going to the movies this weekend, check out Anne Hathaway’s new dinosaur film, The End of Oak Street.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Also on investors’ watch list, world leaders will discuss Iran and increased European defense spending over the second day of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Ankara.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The commerce ministry added a further 20 Japanese organisations, including automaker Subaru, to a "watch list" requiring stricter reviews of exported items that could be used for military purposes.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
It was then that I remembered my aunt Angie, and that my father was telling anyone who would listen that she had put his name on a terrorist watch list.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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