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- verb Present participle of
overwatch .
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Examples
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“Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations to partnering with Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces,” he said.
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JOHN NAGL, PRESIDENT, CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY: Successful counterinsurgency strategy, you don't put small groups of soldiers watching overwatching infiltration routes from Pakistan.
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A Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle engaged and killed two suspected improvised explosive device emplacers overwatching a major thoroughfare for Coalition Forces during a historic flight near Qayyarah, Iraq, in Nineveh province Sept. 1.
Boing Boing 2007
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Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces.
Matt Littman: The President's Speech: Parsing it Word for Word 2008
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Openly crowing about overlording - er, overwatching -- the biggest land mass in the entire Islamic world is a prescription for seething resentment among the world's one billion Muslims, mainstream and otherwise.
Jackson Williams: George W. Bush Wants to Treat Iraq Like South Korea 2008
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BUSH: Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces -- and eventually to overwatching those forces.
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Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces -- and eventually to overwatching those forces.
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Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces.
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Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations to partnering with Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces.
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So there's over 200,000 to 300,000 personnel that are going to be overwatching these elections.
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