Send us feedback about these examples.Each year, medical errors result in 44,000 to 98,000 deaths in the United States. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'sentinel.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2020 It has been guarded every hour of every day since 1937 by elite Tomb Guard sentinels. 2020 Auburn continues to rely on self-reporting and sentinel testing to keep track of its numbers. 2020 And there are certain types of events or sentinel events that require a deeper dive before continuing to ensure the safety of current and future participants. Maureen Miller, The Conversation, 1 June 2021 Expanding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sentinel surveillance programs and other surveillance programs to offer tests not only to those who ask but also to those who may not know to ask is also on Biden's Plan to Combat Coronavirus. 2022 This clinical strategy relies both on infected individuals coming to sentinel hospitals and medical authorities who are influential and persistent enough to raise the alarm. John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022 However, on the wall there is only an enormous and exceedingly bad painting, in a heavy wooden frame, done primarily in weary shades of brown, depicting a Tuscan landscape with dim saints and sentinel cypresses and an unidentifiable bird on a bough. Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2017 However, sentinel surveillance data suggests that there hasn't been an unusual rise. Verb Following the logic, sentinel behavior resulting from varied chronotypes would have made early human groups both safer during the night and better prepared, cognitively, for whatever the day brought. Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 22 Sep.
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Washington Post, 15 July 2021 The lounge had a big-screen TV and three drooping purple balloons tied to the plume of a potted fern a big plastic column full of multicolored drugstore luffas stood like a sentinel in the corner. 2023 Amazon Astro is a new $1,000 robot outfitted with cameras and microphones that can act like a companion or a sentinel, roaming your home to keep an eye on things. Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2021 Seabirds were the first sentinels of possible risks to marine life from plastics: A 1969 study described examining young Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) that had died in Hawaii and finding plastic in their stomachs. 2023 Like a silent sentinel, the statue of Abraham Lincoln has long loomed over dignitaries who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda, among them presidents, members of Congress and even the Capitol Police officers shot to death defending the building in 1998. Hannah Docter-loeb, Scientific American, 28 Mar.
Josh Morgan, USA Today, Smell is a sentinel for several medical conditions. Mark Pratt, Fortune, Members of The Old Guard also serve as sentinels at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, Barbara Salfity-General Services Administration via AP Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America’s shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government. Noun However, the advent of navigation technologies like GPS has left many of the shore’s sentinels without a practical purpose.
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