bystander
Example Sentences
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"My big issue was what I called 'the bystander effect', which I've direct evidence of," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
And, finally, your brother-in-law is not an objective bystander.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 8, 2026
The 30-second spot features a young man in a park attempting pull-ups, who asks a muscular bystander about achieving six-pack abs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
“We’re with you!” a bystander can be heard telling her in the video as others blow emergency whistles.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
Now Paul and the other witnesses were convinced that Kelli had been a crazy, firebomb-throwing cheerleader, while I had simply been an innocent bystander who’d panicked and ran from the scene.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing bystander
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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