spotter

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Recent Examples of spotter Warnings, on the other hand, mean to take action because severe weather has either been reported by spotters or indicated by radar. Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025 Meanwhile, a severe thunderstorm warning means severe weather has been reported by spotters or indicated by radar and indicates imminent danger to life and property. Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025 If a tornado warning is issued, that means severe weather has been reported by spotters or indicated by radar, according to the weather service. Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025 Both instances gave me pause as far as the league’s concussion spotter and how that worked. Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for spotter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spotter
Noun
  • Industry observers said China is wise to go back to its well of popular martial arts classics out of Hong Kong, which have inspired U.S. action movies for decades.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
  • The Elite 2 is a yet-to-launch chipset that follows the Snapdragon 8 Elite, used in high-performance Android smartphones… While Apple observers will be happy to hear the performance similarity, the actual result in consumer devices could be lower.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • They were first spotted by military patrol and then handed over to the police.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • Recent immigration sweeps in the Los Angeles area sparked widespread protests and small riots downtown, as people threw rocks at law enforcement and set patrol vehicles on fire, and federal agents responded with tear gas and pepper spray.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The tree had long been a way marker and memory maker: a site of wedding proposals and remembrance ceremonies, a sentry in photos from one-in-a-lifetime family vacations, taped to fridges across the world.
    Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Anduril makes everything from small drones to sentry towers used to police the U.S.-Mexico border systems to enable pilotless vehicles.
    William Hartung, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • European shares surged in the first half of the year, massively outperforming stocks on Wall Street — but market watchers are divided on the potential for the trend to continue.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 July 2025
  • In the wake of the strikes, experts and watchers of Iran's nuclear program raised questions of what happened to the 880 pounds of enriched uranium believed to be deeply buried in underground tunnels at Isfahan.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Callender was back in his usual role as Inter Miami’s starting keeper on Sunday night against Toronto FC at Chase Stadium.
    Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Wyatt Kaiser is 22 and looks like a keeper.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Mutu plants her bronze figures in the gardens like sentinels from another world.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Conservationists Annemarie van Doorn and Luke Playford watch over the region like sentinels.
    Angus Watson, CNN Money, 25 June 2025

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“Spotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spotter. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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