lookers-on

plural of looker-on

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lookers-on
Noun
  • Lorey presented videos to Fox News Digital that showed other spectators at the game heckling the girls in attendance who were there with Lorey.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Economists are warning that spectators won’t have to wait long until debt hits the $39 trillion mark as the rate of debt accumulation is increasing with every passing day.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Another key question observers inside and outside China increasingly are asking – will Xi take a fourth term as leader of the party, the military and the state, thus further busting norms?
    Deirdre Kirsten Tatlow, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The upside to this dilemma is that despite the tighter supply, the Farm Bureau economists and other industry observers do not expect a major turkey shortage for this holiday season.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Agents then placed her in the back of an unmarked gray Chrysler minivan with tinted windows as onlookers yelled at them.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Experts and onlookers have questioned with growing concern whether these strikes are legal, and whether military lawyers that the Pentagon has encouraged commanders to ignore had signed off on the operations.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The officer then reached over when the car was lifted to the side by bystanders and pulled the child to safety from underneath the car.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In Belmont Cragin, a northwest Chicago community, local organizers have rallied hundreds of volunteers to create kits packed with the whistles, handouts showing when to use them and bilingual flyers detailing what bystanders’ and detainees’ rights are when agents are conducting arrests.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Lookers-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lookers-on. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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