Synonyms for on the watch
on the watch

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1. on the watch

   Alert, ready, and wide-awake refer to a watchful promptness for action. Ready suggests thoughtful preparation; the wandering Indian is alert, the trained soldier is ready. Ready expresses more life and vigor than prepared. The gun is prepared; the man is ready. Prompt expresses readiness for appointment or demand at the required moment. The good general is ready for emergencies, alert to perceive opportunity or peril, prompt to seize occasion. The sense of brisk, nimble is the secondary and now less common signification of alert. Compare ACTIVE; ALIVE; NIMBLE; VIGILANT.

   Synonyms:
   active, alert, brisk, hustling, lively, nimble, prepared, prompt, ready, vigilant, watchful, wide-awake

   Antonyms:
   drowsy, dull, heavy, inactive, slow, sluggish, stupid

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1. Patrick Allen:

   We mustn’t lose sight of what the fans come here for, and they come here to watch their heroes in a gladiatorial sense, not a guy on a data screen. When it gets to that, we’ve lost the very soul of the sport.

2. Rahime Celik:

   I watch the funerals of soldiers and police on TV, and I recognize the pain of the mothers as they cry and scream. It is the souls of mothers that burn, i wish Sertip had never gone. I wish this endless war would be over.

3. Ben Carson:

   He was a quiet, shy kid, not too outgoing, bennie stayed home a lot or went to the library to work. We would have been at the ballfield, so maybe he would have come by to watch.

4. Matt Damon:

   People get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.

5. Leana Wen:

   If we're waiting until 60 % to 80 % of people have it, we're talking about 200 million-plus Americans getting this -- and at a fatality rate of 1 %, let's say, that's 2 million Americans who will die in this effort to try to get herd immunity, those are preventable deaths of our loved ones that we can just not let happen under our watch.