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observer

[ uhb-zur-ver ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

someone or something that observes.
a delegate to an assembly or gathering, who is sent to observe and report but not to take part officially in its activities.
U.S. Air Force.
1. a member of an aircrew, other than the pilot, holding an aeronautical rating.
2. a person who maintains observation in an aircraft during flight.
Also called air observer, U.S. Army. a person who serves in an aircraft as a reconnoiterer and directs artillery fire.

First recorded in 1545–55; observe + -er ¹

And the Jamaica Observer routinely runs hideous cartoons about gay people and incites violence against them.

Dana Rubenstein of The New York Observer wrote that “essential to the experience was segregation.”

You can put mag wheels on a Gremlin,” commented one long time Michigan observer, “but that doesn't make it a Mustang.

His correspondence, much of which survives, is that of an incisive and articulate observer.

Trierweiler has also expressed regret over the tweet in a recent interview with the U.K. Observer.

The observer might well remain perplexed at the pathetic discord between human work and human wants.

It was painfully evident to the most casual observer, that she had died of absolute starvation.

There must be something therefore in the bow, as well as in the violin, more than meets the eye of a casual observer.

He was a charming companion, a keen observer and interested in everything he saw and everybody he met.

The first and most prominent thing which strikes an observer, is, the undoubted general revival of trade and commerce.

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