observer
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Film critic Jenna Ipcar has described how “a perfect comedy duo will make their audience feel like a lucky participant instead of just a passive observer, a welcome guest in a secret world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
As one local observer puts it: "These are not acts of fate. They are the predictable consequences of systemic negligence."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Radio signals traveling between planets should exhibit measurable Doppler shifts as the source and observer move relative to one another.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
But, as another longtime observer of Collins in Maine politics put it to me, Collins “has a remarkable way of using ‘I’ more than ‘we’ in statements.”
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Something about his aura reminded an observer of an ill-treated dog just escaped from his captors.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
About 30,000 Minnesotans were trained as observers, all intent on making sure that the human beings around them were being treated with basic dignity and given due process.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Even then, observers will not be able to see everything within that distance.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
District Court of Maine, alleging that federal agents are using facial recognition and license plate readers to surveil and threaten legal observers in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
According to veteran observers of Israeli politics, Mr. Netanyahu understands that these policies are unpopular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
To something too small or sluggish to duplicate this experience–a snail, say–the idea that a boom box could seem to two observers to produce two different volumes of music simultaneously might seem incredible.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
