be a participant
Example Sentences
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“Unless you're willing to be a participant in these systems of compliance and distraction then you pose some kind of evident threat.”
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
"I said 'we must have a World Championship for women and we have to be a participant in the Olympic Games'," she explained.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2024
Told to move under a canopy of lanterns, I’m warned that any of those around me could be a participant, and I try to blend in, browsing for a place to eat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
And while I was supposed to just be a participant, I couldn’t come empty-handed.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
The sheriff bore himself with dignity, and with a due sense of the extraordinary proceeding in which his duty as an officer required him to be a participant.
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Field, Stephen Johnson
