vigilantly

vigilant | American Dictionary

vigilant
adjective
us/ˈvɪdʒ·ə·lənt/
being very careful to notice things, esp. signs of danger:
Security personnel need to be more vigilant in checking bags and packages.

vigilance

noun[ U ]us/ˈvɪdʒ·ə·ləns/
The vigilance of a mother fox protects her young from danger.

Examples of vigilant

vigilant
Nevertheless, the press-then still vigilant about protecting personal freedom from medical statism-was alarmed.
Procuring ration cards may be difficult unless the department concerned has staff sufficiently vigilant, efficient, dedicated and sympathetic to issue cards on request.
On the lighter side, however, the allure of academic activism can also compromise and threaten our scholarly work if we are not vigilant.
Vigilant monitoring of the heart and central venous pressures help prevent cardiac and venous distension.
The potential duplicity of visual representation thus requires a vigilant set of empirical tests.
They were particularly vigilant about the management of the financial resources available to them.
They may also try to be very vigilant for threat.
As a consequence, the guard was doubled and clergy and justices were asked to be especially vigilant.
Analysts should be vigilant as this situation provides a fertile ground for the involuntary distortion (or manipulation) of results.
A highly anxious and vigilant animal may, in many natural settings, be at a greater survival advantage compared with its more relaxed littermates.
Likewise, the past spoke to the present of the need to be vigilant about abject poverty, welfare injustices, and basic human needs.
Music educators need to be vigilant in addressing this problem.
Second, the copy-editor could have been more vigilant.
The patient's life (in fact, a slow, inevitable, unconscious death) was ended deliberately ahead of time to reduce the vigilant family's suffering.
But they must be equally vigilant against crime.
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