spotter
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The event got back under way after several hours with safety measures including additional jet skis and a drone spotter to monitor the water.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Looking down at her chief executive, who was stationed nearby as a spotter, she called out: “Josep Maria, don’t let me fall!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
The surge of immigration detention flights at Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport spurred plane spotter Nick Benson to shift from tracking rare and unusual aircraft to cataloging the removal of detainees from Minnesota.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The macro and thematic equity research group founded by investor and trend spotter James van Geelen saw positive returns — up to 75% — on nearly all of their 2025 calls.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 18, 2025
“I get that the spotter plane sees the shark in the water and the fisherman tags the shark with a harpoon, but can you tell me how the tags work?”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
The nonprofit group’s pilots, spotters and other volunteers began regularly searching the Florida Straits by plane for other rafters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
“I’d see a convoy of 20 or 30 SUVs and spotters, cellphone in hand, ready to give the alarm.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Kane and her fellow spotters publish the locations of officers and raids underway in an effort to document arrests and de-escalate the encounters with their presence.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Now there’s spotters to make sure no hawks are nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
On the roofs of the ambulances were spotters with binoculars.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
