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observer

[uhb-zur-ver] / əbˈzɜr vər /


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If you want to find an observer singing from the same hymn sheet, sooner or later you will hit pay dirt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

But as a casual observer of college football, ESPN’s offer to Cruz initially struck me as a baffling spectacle.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

“It’s not always a purity test there,” one observer said of the caucus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The equivalence principle says that gravity should effectively vanish locally for an observer in free fall.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

As one observer noted, “The Catholics of Chicago are ministered to in twelve different languages.”

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

The development marks a major shift in the conflict and raises concerns among observers that the fighting could further destabilise the Horn of Africa, potentially drawing in neighbouring countries.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Or from the time it put Baumgartner, in character as Kevin Malone, inside a see-through box in Flatiron Plaza and livestreamed his “workday” to thousands of both in-person and virtual observers.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

You come from what many observers would call the party’s more traditional wing.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

There were also observers from the Dutch embassy and the US consulate.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

In the 1920s, in a direction opposite to M31, observers found a distant pair of spiral galaxies.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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