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[ noun ] a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses

Synonyms

beholder perceiver

Used in print

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

Occasionally , you may come_across one or two bumblebees in the cold season , when you are turning_over sods in your garden , but you have_to be a really keen observer to see them at_all .

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

Two slits enabled observers to watch across the river .

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[ noun ] an expert who observes and comments on something

Synonyms

commentator

Used in print

(Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)

Not all the observers have used the same procedures or made the same assumptions about the lunar brightness distribution when reducing the data , and this , together with differences in the methods of calibrating the antennae and receivers , must account_for much of the disagreement in the measured radio_brightness temperatures .

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

And perhaps an observer of the vases will not go_too_far in deducing that the outlook of their makers and users was basically stable and secure .

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times - granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside - are correct ; but all_too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took_place in the early first millennium .

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