observe
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The researchers also did not observe the nausea-related responses or major muscle loss associated with some existing weight loss treatments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Areas that already do not observe daylight saving time — such as Arizona and Hawaii — would be able to stay on permanent standard time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"We want a region which is peaceful, stable and prosperous. We want a region where countries, all powers, including great powers, observe international law and, in particular, the law of the sea," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
That being said, we found a lot of common ground talking to people around Britain; reasonable folks dispirited by the problems they observe, but ready to navigate their way through them constructively.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
My hands shake a little from having her observe me so closely.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
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“Mag 7, software and even crypto have been actually recovering,” Lee observes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
In a brutally self-aware confession, Yasmina observes, “I carry bitterness for humanity, for relationships and for myself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“If Trump’s public pronouncements are his own personal property, he can sell information about them or do whatever he likes with them,” observes business law expert Ann Lipton of the University of Colorado.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"But then we see other countries like Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and so forth, which are not catching up," Szymanski observes.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
If Gottman observes one or both partners in a marriage showing contempt toward the other, he considers it the single most important sign that the marriage is in trouble.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru's ninth president in a decade at an official ceremony in Lima on Tuesday, AFP journalists observed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Future research will focus on identifying which substances in coffee may be responsible for the liver-related associations observed in the study.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
“There are more people who died than there are people here protesting,” Kathleen Vallee, a Monrovia resident, observed to her friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
As Thomas Jefferson observed: “It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Since George Washington, as the editor observed, “has never given bad advice to his country,” did it not make practical sense to “let him point to a map and say ‘here’?”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Swift's primary mission lasted from 2004 to 2006, but the spacecraft has continued observing the changing universe for more than 20 years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The named plaintiffs in that case were lawfully observing and recording Homeland Security operations in public and were threatened and called “domestic terrorists” as a result, according to that lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said consumers have been "very resilient," with the company observing no shifts in vehicle preference due to higher gasoline prices resulting from the US-Iran war.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Chief Executive He Xiaopeng said the company decided to offer the L03 in both battery-electric and extended-range versions after observing that charging infrastructure remains underdeveloped in many overseas markets, including parts of Mexico and Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
I knew most of them by name, not because I talked with them, but because after many Sundays of observing them I had learned who they were and a little bit about their characteristics.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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