observe
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"Their role is very clear: to observe, to document, and report the facts," Schumer said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Over four years, those responsibilities would give instructors repeated opportunities to teach, observe, correct and assess the habits of a future officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
And that’s quite a reassuring process to observe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Despite their importance, scientists still do not know why these constants have the particular values we observe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
This error, followed by others, as we can now observe from events, is the cause of the threats to that kingdom.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Calvasina observes, however, that tech outside of the United States still looks appealing on performance, valuation and demand metrics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
While publishers “exhibited a strong preference for. . . what might be called ‘highbrow works,’ ” Ms. Manning observes, the favorites among enlisted men ran more to “westerns, mysteries, stories of adventure and page-turning fiction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Most of it comes out of the ground with the consistency of cold peanut butter,” observes economist David I. Levine of UC Berkeley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Alito is especially skilled in bringing together five justices for a majority on some of the Court’s most difficult and contentious issues,” she observes.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
“I don’t get it. Boys are always wondering why girls go to the bathroom in groups, and yet the entire football team travels in a pack—even off-season,” Monica observes.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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The current El Nino event, which emerged in June, is expected to peak later this year but is already shaping up to be the strongest ever observed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Global observed oil inventories fell by 10 million barrels in September, as a 113-million-barrel drawdown in on-land stocks was partly offset by a 103-million-barrel increase in oil on water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Temperatures above 30C have also been recorded for the first time in parts of the tropical Pacific, while record sea-surface temperature anomalies and exceptional subsurface warmth have been observed.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Gen. Thomas Lowin told The Wall Street Journal, which observed a portion of the exercise at U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Well, you’re still alive, so she did a bad job of it,” I observed.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
With its first images and measurements already demonstrating promising performance, Sentinel-3C is on its way to becoming another important tool for observing Earth's oceans, landscapes, ice sheets, and atmosphere as the planet continues to change.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Tributes poured in from across football, with clubs across the country observing a minute's silence.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Analysts at the investment bank keep a neutral rating on the Australia-based pharmaceutical company, observing that a 58% share-price rise over three months came despite earnings downgrades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“I don’t think that AI simulation training is going to replace altogether that observing and learning by doing,” she adds, but “you can actually pick up patterns possibly faster.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
I glance toward the camera I’m sure is observing us.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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