spotted
Example Sentences
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Steve Foreman was walking on Dunwich beach when he spotted the ailing turtle, which he initially thought was "just some debris".
From BBC
The Chinese vessel was spotted 102 miles from the coast of Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture on Thursday, Japan’s Fisheries Agency said Friday.
On Thursday, South Korean intelligence officials told lawmakers they had spotted indications that Kim Ju Ae was in the stage of being designated as a successor, according to a legislator who attended the closed-door meeting.
The macro and thematic equity research group was founded by investor and trend spotter James van Geelen, who identified AI as a game changer in 2022 and spotted diet drugs early in 2023.
From MarketWatch
In some years, the subs have been spotted and in others they evaded detection, he said—and failure can be more educational than success.
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