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passerby

noun as in bystander

noun as in pedestrian

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Many cameras point at public spaces, meaning any passerby could potentially be recorded, and recent reporting has shown how Ring devices can pick up audio from up to 20 feet away.

Around the same time, IBM executives placed mainframes in the lobby of the company’s New York City headquarters and hired female programmers to work in view of passerby.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard a guide or passerby say something along the lines of, “Just another day in paradise!”

Sure, it’s not enough to cause a slipping and falling hazard to even the most visibly intoxicated passerby, and, arguably, it’s not going to stick and will probably melt by the afternoon, but I’m out there going for it.

A dog that chases squirrels or becomes distracted by every passerby can pull you off your feet.

"You're a bunch of killers," a passerby told cops standing sentry there, according to one police source.

Because while calling a passerby “sexy” may be uncouth, it shouldn't be illegal.

She had been choked unconscious and very likely would have died had a passerby not scared away her attacker.

I was in a production of Oliver Twist and I was a passerby, and I had five words: “Coming down the street there!”

A passerby found her body last week, half hidden, half burned, in the Bois de Boulogne on the outskirts of Paris.

On the way home Susanna could scarcely refrain from calling out to every passerby some hint of their good fortune.

Frank could see that the door was ajar, as though inviting the passerby to enter without the formality of knocking.

They take the boy to Paris, employ a passerby—a man of their own class, no doubt—for a few francs, to deliver him at your door.

The rhododendron, with its brilliant colouring, is everywhere, and the little forget-me-not nods to every passerby.

The "sport" was soon stopped, however, by a passerby, who administered a rebuke that could hardly be forgotten.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to passerby, such as: eyewitness, observer, onlooker, spectator, kibitzer, and looker-on.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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