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They were not always pretty to watch but they were ferociously hard to beat.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
For entertainment journalists who watch everything, spoiling surprises is a casualty of the job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
But if you watch the full clip from TMZ, he actually offers a small wave and a thumbs-up before being loaded into a van, although he doesn’t speak.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
If we weren’t in school, we would drive up Santa Monica Boulevard into Hollywood and we’d stand around and watch them produce the radio mysteries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“The lady at the watch shop! I heard you were closed down for a while.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
She is one of the few prominent Asian American content leaders in Hollywood, in a position that helps shape what the world watches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He volunteered at the city's foodbank and even gave fans gifts, including Rolex watches.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The average retiree watches 47 hours of television a week, according to consultancy AgeWave.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Apple also announced updated versions of its entry-level AirPods and smart watches, the latter of which will have improved heart-rate sensors that can be paired with an updated Health app launching later this year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
“I do have the keys, and no one really watches those late at night. They're more concerned about the sky-ferries.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
I also watched video of McConnell on the Senate floor during the vote, when he didn’t seem to do or say anything.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Corroborating Oxford’s account, his brother Robert Oxford told police that he had seen Oxford burn his boots while Walters and another man, Andrew Travis, watched.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
For the first half of the year, full-price sales—a closely watched industry metric—rose 7.7%, while total group sales rose 9%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
NBC’s telecast in 2022 scored 5.9 million viewers while the all-time low was hit in January 2024, when 4.3 million viewers watched on Fox.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
I watched him crawl to the lip of the breathing hole and not move for a while.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Marcus Freeman wasn’t yet Catholic when he visited Notre Dame as a high-school recruit in 2003, but he remembered watching the football team walk from Mass to the stadium on game day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Archive film footage showing Britons in 1913 enjoying days at the races or watching the cricket contrasts sharply with what followed during the horrors of World War One.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Todd Smith, Wafle’s head coach at the Hun School in New Jersey, remembers the first day he met Luke, watching him do a backflip off of his brother’s shoulders into the pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Smialowski, who was photographing Trump's return to Washington from a rally in North Carolina, said he was watching carefully as the president appeared to be sitting in a different seat than usual.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
I close the truck door and focus my eyes into the shadows that stretch toward the rear of Dad’s yard, trying to reassure myself that no one’s watching.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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