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watch

[woch] / wɒtʃ /






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Back at home, Hieu said he likes English because it lets him chat with foreigners and watch a wider variety of videos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Arvind Rajagopal, a media scholar at New York University, told the BBC in 2019 that trains and buses would stop and passengers disembark to watch the show on roadside TVs.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Lobbyists, lawmakers and special-interest leaders will watch closely how the affable Becerra prioritizes his first budget proposal — due days after he takes office on Jan. 4 — for hints about his agenda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

At the start of tonight, the energy and anxiety in my home in east Austin, just shy of ten miles from where James Talarico’s watch party is taking place, was high.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

Squinting, I watch the black horse and rider grow smaller and smaller.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Your delivery ticket leaves out the number your dealer watches, the way a menu leaves out what the restaurant paid for the lobster.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Crude futures settled lower as the market watches for any breakthrough in the latest Middle East diplomatic moves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

McCarron watches training most days and has a close working relationship with Martin.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

She watches reality TV with her kids; joining them, he offers, “I did my thesis on reality. Is this show about Platonic or Aristotelian ideas?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

He watches as more drops trail down the surface of his cup, jaw pulsing.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

BMW warned that its core automotive segment could slide to a loss for a closely watched profitability metric, as the group moves to speed up its restructuring program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Harley stock is up more than 60% since the start of the year, and some long-skeptical observers, who have watched the company’s bike sales drop precipitously over the last 20 years, are changing their views.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

"I watched as the disease slowly took away the freedom to move that he once loved so much," she continued.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Soffin had watched that little girl grow up and eventually become a member of Congress.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

I turned and watched the truck bear down the road, bumping and juddering as it hit the trolley tracks and wove around other vehicles.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Here are the areas Europeans will be watching for a shift:

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

“Why am I going to spend my time watching something that makes me upset or brings me down?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Something healed in me over my wedding weekend, watching my gringo groom sweat through his vintage Hollywood tux while learning to dance samba from a passista dressed in her carnival regalia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Piker’s mother unwinds on a recliner in the living room, watching her son’s stream on a wall-filling television, when El-Sayed’s race is certified.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

First there was the watching of the armor.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios


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