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Recent Examples of onlooker
Eliyahu Sharabi, 52, Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56 – three male civilians – were handed over by Hamas militants to the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza city of Deir al Balah surrounded by crowds of onlookers.
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Jerome Socolovsky, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
The electronic billboard, shining out in Chiefs red just up the road from Arrowhead Stadium, invites curious onlookers to place a call.
816-323-GO KC.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
The New York natives teamed up on the mic during a karaoke night in their hometown, serenading a small crowd of onlookers with their vocals.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Essentially, as much as fans and other onlookers in Manchester and Madrid might share the same pessimism about the match, suggesting similar problems at each end, all that shows is that some cannot grasp how poor City have been.
—Sam Lee, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
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Jerome Socolovsky, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
The electronic billboard, shining out in Chiefs red just up the road from Arrowhead Stadium, invites curious onlookers to place a call.
816-323-GO KC.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
The New York natives teamed up on the mic during a karaoke night in their hometown, serenading a small crowd of onlookers with their vocals.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Essentially, as much as fans and other onlookers in Manchester and Madrid might share the same pessimism about the match, suggesting similar problems at each end, all that shows is that some cannot grasp how poor City have been.
—Sam Lee, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for onlooker
Noun
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Friday’s hearing attracted dozens of supporters and observers – a reflection of public fascination with the killing and Mangione himself.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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Think of the Turing test: If an observer can’t tell whether a response is human-generated or machine-generated, then the machine can be said to exhibit intelligence.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There were no models strutting down a catwalk, no passive spectators in shades admiring clothes from a distance.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Among the other spectators were a family—grandmother, mother, and two daughters—from Bordeaux.—
Katie Ebner-Landy,
The New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the billionaire heiress disappeared (as Season 2 viewers know).—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Côté makes documentaries where viewers can productively probe questions of authenticity and provenance, and fiction features typically composed in a bare, if highly elegant, observational style.—
David Katz,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Onlooker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/onlooker. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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