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as in guardian
a person or group that watches over someone or something
the inexperienced babysitter turned out to be a well-meaning but hopelessly incompetent watcher of young children
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Recent Examples of watcher
Market watchers are awaiting the country’s March inflation figures, out later today.
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
Whatever the case, the spike in yields alarmed market watchers.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
Crisscross the peninsula’s mountainous interior to reach this tiny coastal town—a magnet for whale watchers between January and March.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
Almost 173 million of those are regular watchers of the video service, worth more than $24 billion in direct annual subscription fees alone.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
Whatever the case, the spike in yields alarmed market watchers.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
Crisscross the peninsula’s mountainous interior to reach this tiny coastal town—a magnet for whale watchers between January and March.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
Almost 173 million of those are regular watchers of the video service, worth more than $24 billion in direct annual subscription fees alone.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for watcher
Noun
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Multiple victims were also minors, and at least two were smuggled into the U.S. unaccompanied by a relative or legal guardian, according to the Justice Department.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
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Earlier this month, the talk show host expressed her regrets about consenting to the courts appointing her a legal guardian to oversee her affairs in the past.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Some observers, trying to make sense of Trump’s behavior, have tried to put his policies firmly back in the box of great-power competition.—
Stacie E. Goddard,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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According to Vatican observers and bookmakers, the following candidates have the strongest odds.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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Related article Young children, a substitute teacher, the head of their school and its custodian.—
John Miller,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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When the Dispatch caught up with Nesbit nearly 13 years after his capture, he had been paroled to St. Paul and was working as a custodian for a local business.—
Nick Woltman,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2025
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This trend essentially allows viewers to take an inside look at their romantic dates or dating lives.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
18 Apr. 2025
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Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that the making of a fictional film is often as good a story as the one in the script.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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University of Kansas senior men’s basketball guard Zeke Mayo, who at this time has no college eligibility remaining, has entered his name in the NCAA transfer portal.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2025
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His termination caught employers and unions off guard — coming weeks after the labor contracts covering some 55,000 unionized grocery workers in California had expired — and threw a wrench in negotiations, said Kathy Finn, president of UFCW Local 770.—
Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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Historically, spectators have felt that field events don't receive the same amount of media attention as running events.—
Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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During subsequent performances, spectators took in the music from boats and rafts on the water.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Wyatt Kaiser is 22 and looks like a keeper.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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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
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The Cooke County warden responded Saturday to a 911 call after the group of University of North Texas students became stranded on the water, the Parks and Wildlife Department said in a news release.—
Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Apr. 2025
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The warden will also ask the Attorney General's Office if there are any legal blocks to the execution.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/watcher. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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