as in spectator
someone who sees or watches something observers of the boxing match seemed to be divided as to who won

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Recent Examples of observer By 2021, observers noted that <10% of tokenized real-estate projects showed meaningful secondary trading. Sandy Peng, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Jeremy Pizzi, legal adviser at Global Rights Compliance, which is helping Kyiv compile evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, told Newsweek on Monday that the move was Moscow's latest effort to prevent all access to prisoners by independent observers. Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 An enduring mystery to many Western observers is how Russia has been able to remain relatively solvent despite the extraordinary pressures of three and half years of war. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025 Musk’s deal came as a surprise to some industry observers, even after Semafor reported Starlink’s and T-Mobile’s interest. Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for observer
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  • This year’s event drew 166,000 spectators over three days, with Keanu Reeves among the 84,625 in attendance for Sunday’s race.
    Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Deep breathing could be heard; birds chirped loudly outside; spectators murmured on the periphery.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Between 1958 and 1978, 30 of the low-budget comedies were churned out (a revival in 1992 flopped), attracting millions of viewers worldwide.
    Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And occultations themselves depend on the viewer's location on Earth, as the viewing angle shifts with latitude.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Observer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/observer. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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