spectator
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As a venture investor, Parillo developed a thesis on trading competitions becoming a spectator sport long before he participated in one.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
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
"I got a special invitation to go inside Feltham Prison in 2011 to watch a match as the only spectator," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The more profound the thought, feeling, skill, and invention an artist puts into his or her work, the more it unfolds to an alert spectator.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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