were observing
- past progressive of observe.
Example Sentences
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That appears to have been the status many Guard members were observing before the Wednesday shooting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
That's when astronomers noticed that galaxies were moving too fast given the amount of light they were observing coming out of them.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2024
The scientists were observing chimps in Uganda’s Budongo Forest Reserve in 2017 when some scooped dry bat feces from under a hollow tree and devoured it—the first time the behavior was observed in any mammal.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
However, all these factors alone didn't explain the parent-of-origin-specific results they were observing.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Friedmann made two very simple assumptions about the universe: that the universe looks identical in whichever direction we look, and that this would also be true if we were observing the universe from anywhere else.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
