observation
Example Sentences
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Random observations on the silliness of all the action—“That monkey just used his cuteness for crime!”—are about as close as we get to humor.
“I was just making an observation. What was the word you put down last week? ‘Quiz’ something?”
From Literature
The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope first detected the burst on July 2, prompting rapid follow-up observations from other instruments.
From Science Daily
The proposed magma re-injection model aligns with observations of large, shallow magma systems beneath other major calderas such as Yellowstone and Toba.
From Science Daily
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