watch
verb (used without object)
to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens.
will have watched
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future perfectof watch.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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Two sides who pride themselves on their defensive resilience, and more likely to be found holding out for a late goal than playing heavy metal football, will have watched this match with caution.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Here in Mumbai, with England having been suckered in at the toss - there's another for your Ashes bingo card - the medical centres will have watched with interest.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
That's what she said last month but since then, she will have watched robust Q4 economic readings trickle in, including German annual inflation on Monday at 4.9%.
From Reuters ● Feb. 1, 2022
The closed book history of that World Cup quarter-final, an event most people will have watched once, 34 years ago, states that the game was pretty much even.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2020
We might have gone out by one of the other gates at the south side of the town, and they will have watched all the roads.
From Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
