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Recent Examples of bystander
Firefighters found a crowd of bystanders gathered around a drain and confirmed that several ducklings were swimming at the bottom in a pool of water.
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2026
But Warsh isn't a bystander who lucked his way into arguably the economy's most influential role.
—Matt Peterson, CNBC, 13 May 2026
Demoustier stars as a penniless young woman called Suzanne working on the ‘Venus Electrificata’ sideshow of a traveling fair meting out electrifying kisses to unsuspecting paying bystanders, while secretly being charged with electricity.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 May 2026
Under questioning from Parisi, Haden said that about 75 to 100 bystanders were still inside the crime scene as officers worked to move them away and seal it off.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 12 May 2026
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2026
But Warsh isn't a bystander who lucked his way into arguably the economy's most influential role.
—Matt Peterson, CNBC, 13 May 2026
Demoustier stars as a penniless young woman called Suzanne working on the ‘Venus Electrificata’ sideshow of a traveling fair meting out electrifying kisses to unsuspecting paying bystanders, while secretly being charged with electricity.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 May 2026
Under questioning from Parisi, Haden said that about 75 to 100 bystanders were still inside the crime scene as officers worked to move them away and seal it off.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 12 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bystander
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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“Bystander.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bystander. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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