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Recent Examples of onlooker
There are friends, some curious onlookers, intellectuals, a generally bohemian crowd.
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Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
The footage, which has been circulated widely on social media, shows the object narrowly missing the animal as onlookers react with alarm.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 May 2026
The operation drew the attention of several dozen onlookers, who were standing in line as part of a food giveaway by a local nonprofit called the Dream Center Foundation.
—Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
But Minnesota reminded basketball onlookers last series that its defense can be the ultimate neutralizer.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
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Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
The footage, which has been circulated widely on social media, shows the object narrowly missing the animal as onlookers react with alarm.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 May 2026
The operation drew the attention of several dozen onlookers, who were standing in line as part of a food giveaway by a local nonprofit called the Dream Center Foundation.
—Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
But Minnesota reminded basketball onlookers last series that its defense can be the ultimate neutralizer.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for onlooker
Noun
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For a few fleeting minutes, observers inside the moon’s dark central shadow — the umbra — will see the sun completely covered, revealing the spectacular solar corona and plunging landscapes into an eerie twilight.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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That the government is spending more on tourism while Cubans go without basics shows how far the Communist revolution has devolved, observers say.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
Noun
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But Jeffries, an outstanding student who typically went straight home from baseball practice to study, remained more of a spectator than a participant in the borough’s burgeoning hip-hop scene.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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The air show has been cancelled, according to a post from the Mountain Home Police Department, which further advised spectators not to travel to the Air Force base.—
Christopher Watson,
ABC News,
17 May 2026
Noun
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In many scenes where a conventional filmmaker would have layered in the sound of footsteps or ambient movement, Abraham chose silence, letting the visual image generate its own interior noise in the viewer’s mind.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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However, the playoffs have delivered over and over to viewers and rewarded us for putting up with garbage regular-season games.—
David Troy,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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“Onlooker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/onlooker. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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