spotting

Example Sentences

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"I'm very good at spotting a fake. But sometimes it's easy, one person submitted a photo of Boris Johnson!"

From BBC • May 21, 2026

I was immediately taken by Anna Theoktisto’s weeknight risi e bisi for Food & Wine after spotting it on Instagram last week.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Firms that provide leveraged ETFs are “very good at spotting a trend and jumping on it,” Ullal said.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

Even spotting a grizzly in the wild is still relatively unusual in the lower 48 states.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

It wasn’t simply that Anning was good at spotting fossils–though she was unrivalled at that–but that she could extract them with the greatest delicacy and without damage.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson