passerby
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A sympathetic passerby asks, who have you lost?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The mischievous thieving monkey Ukiki is once again trying to make off with the belongings of a passerby when he is stopped by another traveler: Princess Daisy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
As the tram careens past, a delivery man can been seen leaping to safety from his bicycle, while a passerby also races out of the way.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Any prudent passerby would think twice before approaching a clearing with a tower made of hundreds of skulls at its center.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
They would never have been noticed by a casual passerby; so thoroughly smashed was the vessel that the fragments were no bigger than pebbles.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
The wreck in the Danube was reportedly discovered on 2 August, when a passersby reported part of the motorcycle protruding from the rocks on the riverbank in downtown Budapest.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
And fans have responded — indeed, Abdul-Mateen has been touched by how often passersby want to talk about the show’s non-superhero aspects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Yet Francois says that he currently drives his own little mouse around Miami, where he lives, and has been surprised by the response from passersby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
On this late-May evening in Mindelo, a city on the archipelago nation's Sao Vicente island, passersby who recognise the singer stop in the street to join the concert.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
I stood in the sunlight outside the church, noticing that passersby either lifted their hats or made a discreet sign of the cross on their chests as they came abreast of the church.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
