detected
/dɪˈtɛktɪd/ adjective B2- Having been noticed. · The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look.
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“Why,” replied he, “I think it just possible Dantès may have been detected with some trifling article on board ship considered here as contraband.”
“If I took them, and were detected, I should lose my place, which is worth two thousand francs a year; so that I should be a great fool to run such a risk for three hundred.”
Mac!—the first sign of temper I have detected in you.
I remembered how he had sniffed his lips, and had no doubt that he had detected something which had given rise to the idea.
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