bystander
Example Sentences
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"My big issue was what I called 'the bystander effect', which I've direct evidence of," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
As this barbershop bystander made clear, for the first time, only a prediction of another championship would be acceptable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
And, finally, your brother-in-law is not an objective bystander.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 8, 2026
Gil Kerlikowske, a former CBP commissioner, told ProPublica that it’s difficult to draw conclusions from the chaos in bystander videos.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026
And it made me feel better in some obscure way: imagining myself a hero, rushing fearlessly for the gun, instead of merely loitering in the bullet’s path like the bystander which I so essentially am.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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Because They Marched
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