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Recent Examples of bystander
The room quickly devolved into chaos, as bystander video showed Henyard’s boyfriend, Kamal Woods, and Brown throwing punches at one another in the back of the room.
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Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025
And the Shoah wasn’t confined to one out-of-the-way place named Oświęcim, such that bystanders didn’t know what was happening.
—Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025
The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office charged Martin and Payton each with three counts of murder for the shooting deaths of innocent bystanders Yamile Martinez, 21; Johntaya Alexander, 21; and Melinda Davis, 57.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025
Instead, Ulman doesn’t make her role the more conscious exception and lets the ordeal play out with Elena being mostly a complicit bystander.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
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Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025
And the Shoah wasn’t confined to one out-of-the-way place named Oświęcim, such that bystanders didn’t know what was happening.
—Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025
The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office charged Martin and Payton each with three counts of murder for the shooting deaths of innocent bystanders Yamile Martinez, 21; Johntaya Alexander, 21; and Melinda Davis, 57.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025
Instead, Ulman doesn’t make her role the more conscious exception and lets the ordeal play out with Elena being mostly a complicit bystander.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bystander
Noun
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Gastelum rallied in the fourth frame, and briefly rocked Adesanya late in the round with a head kick that left many observers wondering if the upcoming fifth round would be a winner-takes-all affair.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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Suddenly, as if some omniscient observer had pressed play, the scene roared to life.—
Brendan Marks,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Daytona 500 grips over 100,000 spectators at the track and countless more watching on TV.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Preliminary plans call for a spectator north-south walkway/viewing area running between two sets of four courts.—
Brent Schacherer,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the billionaire heiress disappeared (as Season 2 viewers know).—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Côté makes documentaries where viewers can productively probe questions of authenticity and provenance, and fiction features typically composed in a bare, if highly elegant, observational style.—
David Katz,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Bystander.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bystander. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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