observe
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Still, earnings growth for the rest of the market has also been strong and accelerating, they observe, with the median S&P 500 company growing EPS by 14%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Aya Lewkowicz, a member of the Pink Front activist movement who came from overwhelmingly secular Tel Aviv to help protect the Jerusalem cafe, said Israelis should choose for themselves how to observe Shabbat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Because ionized gas affects the way radio waves travel, the ionosphere is relatively straightforward to observe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
This is a largely Christian community but some residents continue to observe traditional practices, in which vultures play a key role.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Okay. Good. But were you able to observe the sheer awesomeness of the rocket before it—you know—got you?”
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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“Sometimes it’s kind of nice to enter a meditative state and not be scrolling on my phone,” he observes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“We were able to explore a real love story together without any physicality,” Woodley observes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
We can “learn a great deal from Eisenhower’s strategic leadership—particularly, some of the traits he demonstrated,” Mr. Cavanaugh observes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Not only is the number of M&A deals increasing, but the deals’ value is also surging, the research note observes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
“This kid has people who love him unconditionally. They understand what he did was a horrible, stupid, act,” he observes.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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In the case of Trainline, the CMA said it observed fees of up to £2.79 being added on to headline train fares, and up to £1.50 for coach bookings.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
A constant background effect that produces cosmic repulsion could account for the observed acceleration.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
The magnetar is also observed from a nearly pole-on perspective.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
It is claimed that while in the garden he observed an apple falling from a tree that led to him thinking about the theory of gravity, which he described in his 1687 book Principia.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
As Agatha Swanburne once observed, “Narrow minds are like narrow roads: only one idea at a time can pass, and that makes for slow going indeed!”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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In observing the Los Angeles Ballet at rehearsal, Claire Salinda distills the appeal of ballet core: How slippers and satin can make you feel more confident, secure and ordered in a chaotic world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Using JWST, they looked deep into space and therefore far back in time, observing an era when the universe was only a few hundred million years old.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
But in the Kimana reserve, AFP journalists saw six carcasses on Wednesday -- some fresh, others older -- with rangers also observing partial paralysis, preventing the animals from standing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
A 38-year-old Los Angeles County resident was observing security operations and carrying ammunition, authorities said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He was to travel on the Beagle—not as a “finished Naturalist,” but as a scientist-in-training “amply qualified for collecting, observing and noting any thing worthy to be noted in Natural History.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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