observe
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Areas that already do not observe daylight saving time — such as Arizona and Hawaii — would be able to stay on permanent standard time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Their customized workflow allowed them to observe protein interactions directly inside intact cells rather than relying only on samples that had been broken apart.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
That being said, we found a lot of common ground talking to people around Britain; reasonable folks dispirited by the problems they observe, but ready to navigate their way through them constructively.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But she stressed Wednesday that "at this juncture, I see it as prudent to give a bit more time to observe how inflation unfolds from here."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
As I study this rover more, I observe more thoroughly all the damage he has sustained.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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"I got what I wanted and it doesn't sit right," she observes, describing parties full of "big shots and barbies" whose empty talk makes her "ears bleed".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
As Holly observes, “Now reality is becoming stranger and stranger.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
To put the expected earnings growth in perspective, that would usually be associated with a profit increase seen as an economy recovering from recession, Evercore observes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
"But then we see other countries like Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and so forth, which are not catching up," Szymanski observes.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
If Gottman observes one or both partners in a marriage showing contempt toward the other, he considers it the single most important sign that the marriage is in trouble.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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This has left the Strait of Hormuz “deserted, with no ships observed transiting the waterway on Tuesday,” they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The apes were observed during the five minutes before the peanuts arrived, when they knew food was coming.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Sturgis, Rogers and Ames were all in Fields’ Echo Theater Company production of Samuel D. Hunter’s “Clarkston,” a more scrupulously observed relationship drama with its own share of surprising turns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
After spending the early 2000s as an engineer in Silicon Valley, he observed that the memory industry was slowly migrating away from its U.S. origins to Japan, then Korea and Taiwan.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
There was no pork served in the dining room, and from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, the devout observed a sabbatical decorum.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said consumers have been "very resilient," with the company observing no shifts in vehicle preference due to higher gasoline prices resulting from the US-Iran war.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Dean Burnett says embarrassment is the awareness of other people observing you and "could find you lacking"
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Our goal is to move from observing associations to understanding causality," Vicinanza said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Chief Executive He Xiaopeng said the company decided to offer the L03 in both battery-electric and extended-range versions after observing that charging infrastructure remains underdeveloped in many overseas markets, including parts of Mexico and Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
His motivation for this work came from his interest in astronomy, where the need for accurate timekeeping had long been obvious, but was becoming more pressing as more accurate observing instruments were designed.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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