be a participant
Example Sentences
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“Unless you're willing to be a participant in these systems of compliance and distraction then you pose some kind of evident threat.”
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
"I said 'we must have a World Championship for women and we have to be a participant in the Olympic Games'," she explained.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024
Told to move under a canopy of lanterns, I’m warned that any of those around me could be a participant, and I try to blend in, browsing for a place to eat.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024
When you resolve to be a participant, not a spoiler, in civic life, you focus on solutions, not problems.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024
It was one thing to be a passive onlooker of a battle, another to be a participant in a plot for the ruin of Leonidas.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns