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  • verb Present participle of overwatch.

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Examples

  • “Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations to partnering with Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces,” he said.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Time for Bipartisanship 2009

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • BUSH: Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces -- and eventually to overwatching those forces.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2007 2007

  • Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces -- and eventually to overwatching those forces.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2007 2007

  • Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces.

    Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Iraq 2007

  • Over time, our troops will shift from leading operations to partnering with Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces.

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007 2007

  • So there's over 200,000 to 300,000 personnel that are going to be overwatching these elections.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005 2005

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