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observe

[uhb-zurv] / əbˈzɜrv /






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Picnic mats and drone photography were banned, and noisy, mobile-phone-toting tourists were kept well away from the graves and cautioned to observe respectful silence.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The conditions created the perfect situation to observe effects of the shot.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

This transformation helped establish the relatively transparent universe that astronomers observe today.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Then they move to Dimitsana, a storied little town in Arcadia in the Peloponnese, where I observe them in their studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

I observe from some distance, but it’s hard not to think they have an air of innocence about them.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The author observes that they had timed things perfectly to catch a rising wave of Halloween business and seasonal tourism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Flavio Bolsonaro wears a black shirt and shoulders a backpack as he disembarks the plane alongside his wife and two daughters, AFP observes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

As Willy observes, it also educated listeners about Puerto Rico with context they didn’t have beforehand, making an album like “Libertad” potentially more approachable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

To investigate Masaya's underground activity, the researchers analyzed measurements collected by the Sentinel-1 satellite, which observes the volcano approximately once every 12 days.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

So the young Shaper observes, singing to the few who remain, fingertips troubling a dead man’s harp.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

"He's probably observed the weather more than anyone else in the world, I suspect," Prof Michael Burton said.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The FBI added that it had observed "TraderTraitor actors" converting stolen assets into Ethereum, and expected those assets to be laundered further by converting them using decentralized finance and instant swap services.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Then, Stevens did another primetime interview with CNN, where she mentioned that she still supports “Abdul” but again lined it with criticism of his ads and observed that they might be making voters feel unsafe.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026

Crucially, the observed effect was still strong enough to provide clear evidence that quark-gluon plasma had formed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

As she got closer, she observed women squatting on the shore, beating clothes on rocks.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Spain was observing the second of three days of national mourning on Friday, with the public demanding answers just weeks before an early general election on November 29.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

As a result, observing the radiation tracks collected near the Moon was relatively straightforward.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

But the plans were abandoned, with analysts observing that neither company’s hometown wanted to yield primacy to the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

In 2005, as Northern Ireland's peace process was being cemented, the group was observing a ceasefire.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Like Ralph Waldo Emerson? Ms. Jacobs says he was really into observing, so that’s what I’ve been doing. Observing. Like I’m an eyeball. And writing what I observe in my eyeball journal.”

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée


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