onlooker
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“How’s the weather been?” he asked one onlooker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Any rational onlooker would assume that the Trojans had held on for good, dispatching of the Ducks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
Nix had surgery last week and was an onlooker as the Broncos fell to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
An onlooker warned the agents, “You gonna let him die.”
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
What he means is that he doesn’t want to be merely an onlooker, that there’s no room for him in all that, and he’s right.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Crowds of onlookers stood near buildings teetering on collapse with police officials doing little to cordon off the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The combination probably explains the excessive growth, turning the water surface an opaque green and preventing onlookers from seeing the new blue hue of the concrete basin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Did Gordon Granger, an otherwise obscure Union Army general, really stroll into Galveston and read a decree from President Abraham Lincoln declaring, to a sea of onlookers, that all enslaved people were now officially free?
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
That has attracted a parade of onlookers eager to see and, in some cases, diagnose the situation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Then, more for the benefit of onlookers and eavesdroppers, because Margaret Kochamma needed no introduction really: “My wife, Margaret.”
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
