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the following of a custom, rule, or law
a society in which a strict observation of business etiquette is expected of visiting foreigners
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Recent Examples of observations
The Challenge Our team started this research in summer 2023, when one of us, a space weather expert, spotted inconsistencies in space weather observations.
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JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
Nobody Wants This is a tougher case because its leads, Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, are just so charming and many of its observations about love and family are just so spot-on that weaker elements can get lost in the froth.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The emerging discipline of geomythology is coming into its own, as scientists, historians, and other scholars see the rich potential for understanding how humans have made sense of their observations of nature over time.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
An American traveler’s observations about everyday Italian home quirks have gone viral on TikTok.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Modern observations rule that out, instead pointing to a picture where an early inflationary period preceded the hot Big Bang, and where even the hottest temperatures reached are significantly below the Planck scale.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Finally, researchers made detailed, concrete observations.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Fullback Alec Ingold and offensive tackle Kendall Lamm had similar observations.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Without them, the model would have to rely on raw, real-time observations for training data, without historical context.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
Nobody Wants This is a tougher case because its leads, Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, are just so charming and many of its observations about love and family are just so spot-on that weaker elements can get lost in the froth.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The emerging discipline of geomythology is coming into its own, as scientists, historians, and other scholars see the rich potential for understanding how humans have made sense of their observations of nature over time.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
An American traveler’s observations about everyday Italian home quirks have gone viral on TikTok.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Modern observations rule that out, instead pointing to a picture where an early inflationary period preceded the hot Big Bang, and where even the hottest temperatures reached are significantly below the Planck scale.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Finally, researchers made detailed, concrete observations.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Fullback Alec Ingold and offensive tackle Kendall Lamm had similar observations.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Without them, the model would have to rely on raw, real-time observations for training data, without historical context.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for observations
observances
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Similar jijingu have been found across the Baekje kingdom’s capital, and offer a window into religious observances at the time—a mix of indigenous Korean animism combined with outside Buddhist and Chinese influences.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
16 Oct. 2025
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European migrants brought festivals such as Samhain and other observances of mortality to North America.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Observations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/observations. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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