as in observer
someone who sees or watches something viewers of the police videotape are divided in their opinions as to what it actually shows

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Recent Examples of viewer As investment falls elsewhere in the world and local budgets are increasingly stretched, the need to pivot to attract younger viewers and better cater to other audiences has heightened to new levels, according to panel of commissioners today at the MIA Market in Italy. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025 Paul Greengrass’ United 93 assumes that viewers will bring their own context; the movie is a 110-minute unrelenting nightmare that accepts that countless stories from that day could be told and this is just one of them, with no aspirations of opening up its world. Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025 While The Legend of Vox Machina is set in Tal'Dorei, the successor show takes viewers to another continent in Exandria called Wildemount. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025 Madison claims the first video went viral and viewers tagged Carnival in the comments, which caught the attention of the company. Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for viewer
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Noun
  • To outside observers, China’s economy still looks unstoppable.
    Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The indictment — and the machinations that led to it — are the latest, and arguably most concerning, example of what many legal observers point to as the politicization and weaponization of the department under Bondi.
    Elena Moore, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • This significantly decreases the likelihood of collateral damage on the forces deployed by a security guarantor, allowing that partner to be a neutral and idle spectator rather than an active belligerent.
    Omar Al-Ubaydli, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The five-time major winner was heckled relentlessly, forced to back off putts due to crowd noise, and even went after a spectator who threw a beer at his wife, Erica, but was pulled back by officials.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Viewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/viewer. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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