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Recent Examples of spotter
If an athlete’s muscles fail or the bar slips, the interior straps — capable of supporting 1,500 pounds — catch the weight rather than metal spotter arms attached outside the cage.
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Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Six hours later a spotter at the finish blew a whistle to signal the leaders were circling above.
—Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
According to Gauthier, the spotter reported hearing a sound that was either the parachutes opening or the climbers making impact with the rock.
—Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
In a kind of apprenticeship system, Harris first worked as a spotter, then graduated to driving slammer cars.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Six hours later a spotter at the finish blew a whistle to signal the leaders were circling above.
—Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
According to Gauthier, the spotter reported hearing a sound that was either the parachutes opening or the climbers making impact with the rock.
—Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
In a kind of apprenticeship system, Harris first worked as a spotter, then graduated to driving slammer cars.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spotter
Noun
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This clinching game was what many observers expected the series to be like between the defensive-minded teams, but each side watched leads of two-plus goals disappear in the first three games.—
Mark Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Political observers often float Ossoff as a potential 2028 candidate for president, but he's waved away speculation.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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The state patrol says alcohol wasn't involved and both women were wearing their seat belts.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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The officers then raced Lucy to Elliott Key, trading turns with chest compressions en route in their speeding patrol boat as a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue helicopter was waiting to take her to a hospital.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
10 June 2026
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The incident occurred while one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB) was returning from its sentry duties off Bentinck Island.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
10 Dec. 2025
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The sentries notified the camp; barricades went up; three women lay down on the highway.—
Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
12 Nov. 2025
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These watchers, including staff and volunteers with Friends of Big Bear Valley, are about to gather to honor Sandy Steers, the nonprofit’s late executive director and the force behind its nest cam.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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Still, Fed watchers say the fact that there is a US-Iran framework will allow Fed officials to avoid overreacting to another hot inflation report in June.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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The Frenchman’s brace put his full skillset on display – the first coming off a diagonal run through the box and a first-time shot that went to the left and rolled past Senegal keeper Eduard Mendy.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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Senegal refused to give up and made another play right at Maignan, but the French keeper came out on top.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
17 June 2026
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Dozens of health organizations and research groups have formed an independent surveillance network to track the presence of dangerous pathogens in community wastewater—a sentinel for potential outbreaks.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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Here and there, fire, wind, and flood would have broken the forest into a mosaic of old and new, grass and forest, shrubs and sentinels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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“Spotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spotter. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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