observer

Example Sentences

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As the jeweler quietly continued working on the white-gold-and-platinum bracelet, hole by painstaking hole, she was interrupted by an observer, a compact 58-year-old man.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Another longtime observer of IPOs, the University of Florida professor Jay Ritter, also thinks the 15-day fast entry to the Nasdaq 100 will foster a kind of slow-motion flipping.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

That was the moment I stopped being only an observer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

The untrained observer might also wonder why private companies with shareholders wouldn’t try to maximize profits by charging as much as they could.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

This somehow seemed more detached, as if I were really not in the picture and only an observer.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen