spectator
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A swarming Spanish defense made him little more than a spectator for most of the match.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Any other spectator would have had to just deal with it, but Austin wasn’t just any other spectator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
You are not a spectator to American democracy, and you are not a passive recipient of American constitutional meaning.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
It has already been a week to remember in Southport for Howard, who has never previously attended The Open, even as a spectator.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
I divided my eyes between all the streets, an insatiable spectator incapable of taking in such beauty in its entirety.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
About 500,000 spectators turned out in Paris on Sunday, with 180,000 around Montmartre alone.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Folklore scholar Michael Kinsella has described this kind of online activity as a form of “online legend-tripping” where audiences become contributors, collaborators and world-builders rather than simply spectators.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
It was as if she had abstracted herself from scissors and spectators, projecting not so much courage as strength.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
DR Congo superfan Michel Kuka Mboladinga, better known as Lumumba Vea or the "living statue", became one of the most recognisable spectators early on in the tournament.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Aedanus Burke, for example, warned that the petitioners were “blowing the trumpet of sedition” and demanded that the galleries be cleared of all spectators and newspaper reporters.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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