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Recent Examples of looker-on
Shortly after the Paris Couture Week show, beauty fanatics and experts quickly began to dissect McGrath’s brilliant makeup artistry, earning high praise from notable lookers-on.
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Claire Sullivan, WWD, 23 Jan. 2025
Claire Sullivan, WWD, 23 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looker-on
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The roughly 680-mile-wide (1,090 kilometers) dwarf planet would pass in front of the background star at an angle visible only to observers in northern Canada and other parts of the Arctic during daylight hours.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement But observers still contend that MAHA’s strategy lacks teeth.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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Deep breathing could be heard; birds chirped loudly outside; spectators murmured on the periphery.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Cryer is similarly observant toward Sheen’s extended public meltdown, an early inflection point in the social media era in which onlookers got an exhilarating blow-by-blow of one man’s downward spiral.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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For two days, climbers and onlookers gathered around a 45-foot wall—an ephemeral monument suspended above water—where the edges between sport, spectacle, and cultural communion blurred.—
Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Witnesses and other bystanders were able to pull the dogs away from the elderly woman after the attack, authorities added.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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Videos from bystanders appeared to capture on person running across a rooftop of a nearby building on the campus, called the Losee Center, located around 140 yards from the stage were Kirk was speaking from.—
Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Looker-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looker-on. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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