as in spectators
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 viewers
The league averaged 221,000 viewers throughout the season, including its playoffs, while the championship game between Rose BC and Vinyl BC drew 364,000 viewers and peaked at 385,000.
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Roberta F. Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Belly is a sweet everygirl upon whom viewers can seamlessly project, but as my colleague Elise Taylor astutely argued, her identity is all too bound up in the Fisher brothers.
—Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
But viewers can count singing and dancing out, Bargatze is nearly certain.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
The event follows an August Twitch stream from London by the group that a rep for Major Lazer says drew more 210,000 unique viewers in an hour.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2025
The show was a hit with older viewers but lagged with the young adult demos that networks were obsessed with at the time.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Evidence showed Lachlan feared alienating core Fox viewers — which is to say pro-Trump voters — by confronting them too directly with the facts that President Joe Biden squarely won the election.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
Were there conversations viewers didn’t get to see?
—Kristen Baldwin September 2, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Is this an attempt to appeal to younger Office viewers who never watched it on linear TV and only know it as a binge?
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Roberta F. Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Belly is a sweet everygirl upon whom viewers can seamlessly project, but as my colleague Elise Taylor astutely argued, her identity is all too bound up in the Fisher brothers.
—Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
But viewers can count singing and dancing out, Bargatze is nearly certain.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
The event follows an August Twitch stream from London by the group that a rep for Major Lazer says drew more 210,000 unique viewers in an hour.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2025
The show was a hit with older viewers but lagged with the young adult demos that networks were obsessed with at the time.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Evidence showed Lachlan feared alienating core Fox viewers — which is to say pro-Trump voters — by confronting them too directly with the facts that President Joe Biden squarely won the election.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
Were there conversations viewers didn’t get to see?
—Kristen Baldwin September 2, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Is this an attempt to appeal to younger Office viewers who never watched it on linear TV and only know it as a binge?
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for viewers
Noun
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Just one week after wowing spectators at the US Open with her dominating and inspiring tennis skills, Coco Gauff shifted her razor-sharp focus to her other passion—fashion.—
Paul Chi,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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Stunned spectators gasp and scream before people start running away.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The roughly 680-mile-wide (1,090 kilometers) dwarf planet would pass in front of the background star at an angle visible only to observers in northern Canada and other parts of the Arctic during daylight hours.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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October is also a peak month for displays of the Northern Lights; if geomagnetic activity is high, some observers at northern latitudes may also see the comet amid auroras.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Viewers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/viewers. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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