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spectator

[spek-tey-ter, spek-tey-] / ˈspɛk teɪ tər, spɛkˈteɪ- /


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As one fellow music journalist recently said to me, “Coachella is the only music festival that’s also a spectator sport.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

But it gave viewers some sense of what players, pitchers and umpires were figuring out in real time: What counts as a ball and a strike in the most subjective of all spectator sports?

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

It’s time to respond with resolve by restoring the capacity of a reformed United Nations to act, so that it no longer remains a mere spectator to events that affect us all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In the past two years, spending on live events, excluding spectator sports, has shot up by $10 billion to a total of $60 billion.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

The burden fell away, leaving me afloat, and I was a spectator witnessing the nearest to a love scene I would ever see between them.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston




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