observation
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As for the Labour Party itself, the stand out human observation is it appears to have remembered how to smile again.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In Sonny’s notebook, every observation is a moral choice, a mini-essay about what proper conduct is, what failure is, how you might get past it, and what our responsibilities to others might be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her first observation: “The bonnets look too fancy for the Ingalls family.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But neither is it the direct observation of attraction between populations, and showing that a statistical model can produce a genetic pattern is not the same as proving that this model was historically true.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
During her time in the tank, she spoke and moved little, only offering the occasional observation.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
Although these observations seem to point in opposite directions, a new study suggests they could share the same underlying explanation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The argument is over how close the system is to a threshold - and how much weight to give to each kind of evidence: ancient climate records, modern observations, statistical warnings and complex climate models.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Martin runs a group where citizen scientists can report observations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
But it turned out to be one of the more prescient observations anyone made about this era of Chinese economic policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The distance derived from measurements of the parallax of Mars carried out in 1671 by a French team using simultaneous observations by Jean Richer from Cayenne, in French Guiana, and Cassini from Paris.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing observation
The Scientific Method
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The ACT Science Test: The Scientific Method
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 5
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