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passerby

noun as in bystander

noun as in pedestrian

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He moved the family business to Encinitas, where he bought 67 acres near the railroad and Interstate 5 and planted so many patented poinsettia plants that passersby were treated to crimson waves come November.

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“Giddy-yap, Rainbow!” she cried aloud, to bolster her nerve, and also to warn any passersby of her wobbly, swerving approach.

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Like, he liked 15-year-old girls… He wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds, but he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were but would look legal to a passerby.”

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Since my experience at Finsbury Park, what has stayed with me, perhaps more than the filming, is how passersby failed to step in.

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“But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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