spectator
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“You can pay some stupid broker,” said one billionaire spectator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Terribly sorry to the spectator, first of all," Medvedev said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Admissions to spectator amusements also buoyed consumer spending during the second quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Whether it’s a music festival or a creator’s livestream, fandom is no longer a spectator sport,” added Mohan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
What the dreamer was experiencing, she experienced, and not as some hapless spectator.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Players and spectators are expected to stand for it, if they can, and refrain from moving around.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Many spectators watched pounding waves there at high tide Saturday morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Tens of thousands of runners fill the streets with spectators cheering them on in each of the city’s boroughs during the annual New York City Marathon, taking place on Nov. 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Without us, there is no one to hoist blame upon when the film reveals its layers, no one to compare to the film’s wide-eyed spectators of global collapse.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
And for five years we have stood waiting….Not as idle spectators, but as the busiest and most unwearied actors,” wrote suffragist Frances Dana Barker Gage in a letter to the Anti-Slavery Standard, an abolitionist newspaper.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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