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Recent Examples of spectator
More than 300,000 spectators flock to town to watch more than 4,436 unique competitors from 55 countries compete in the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), now a 13-week circuit.
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Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
When to see the space station from Earth The International Space Station, which completes 16 orbits of Earth per day, is regularly visible to spectators around the globe.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Met Gala spectators may not get a ticket into the A-list affair.
—Dalila Muata, NBC news, 5 May 2026
Muniz wasn’t merely a spectator at the track.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
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Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
When to see the space station from Earth The International Space Station, which completes 16 orbits of Earth per day, is regularly visible to spectators around the globe.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Met Gala spectators may not get a ticket into the A-list affair.
—Dalila Muata, NBC news, 5 May 2026
Muniz wasn’t merely a spectator at the track.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spectator
Noun
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Many observers have argued in retrospect that blocking the merger was a mistake.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Davis, the observer, said that unlike the earlier trackers, the Migra Map doesn’t attempt to alert people to events occurring in real time, but reports enforcement actions after the fact.—
Carolina Cuellar,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
Noun
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Suddenly, big audiences are harder to come by, and advertisers instead must work harder to persuade individual viewers during personal binge sessions.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
9 May 2026
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Those viewers were probably not sated by the FCC’s February review of the performance, which found that the songs’ lyrics had been appropriately altered for the broadcast.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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“Spectator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectator. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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