observe
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The first light able to travel freely from that moment on is what we now observe as the cosmic microwave background.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
“We don’t observe a meaningful inflection in pixel additions when weighting pixels by web traffic,” they write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A spokeswoman for Denise Fergus previously said her application to observe the hearing had been granted.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Other chapters observe what happens when Thems date or marry Whos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
A troop of baboons trotted along the bank to observe her, and the males uttered threatening cries.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
From such lows, the median rally into year-end has been 10%, Rubner observes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The bonds—the Hoogheemraadschap Lekdijk Bovendams, to call them by their sprawling Dutch name—are, as Mr. Wigglesworth observes, models of their kind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"He just loves being prime minister," a government insider observes.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“He wrote about what he knew,” Mr. Fiennes observes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Tara observes the archers while Chandresh watches the crowd as their attention is drawn to the display.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
As many have observed, Jeffrey Archer, who has died aged 86, led a life as colourful as the plot in one of his novels.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
As one Bluesky user observed, the inherent idea here comes “when you have no concept of how people engage with music.”
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Their effects have been observed through well established phenomena such as the Lamb shift, spontaneous emission, and the Casimir effect.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
However, reporting from The Times later found both firefighters and nearby residents had observed smoldering in the burn area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nhamo ate the yams with an uncomfortable feeling that she was being observed.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Tributes poured in from across football, with clubs across the country observing a minute's silence.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It measures how fast distant galaxies are moving away from our home galaxy, the Milky Way, by observing the brightness of supernovae explosions in these far away galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 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
After observing a shrinking number of stocks driving the stock market’s recent gains, Joseph Adinolfi considered the notion that the old buy-and-hold investing philosophy has become obsolete.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Her mother would be just a few yards away in the kitchen, hearing everything, observing everything.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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