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  • noun Plural form of onlooker.

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Examples

  • The fog of diplomacy at Wednesday's EU-China Summit distracted onlookers from the critical issue facing Europe's future competitiveness: its ability to remain a global power in innovation.

    EU Must Act Fast and Share Knowledge With China Dirk Jan van den Berg 2010

  • The positive response from the onlookers is the game.

    Cool or tragic? The engineer's dog. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Among the onlookers was a bright - eyed, weazened little man who attached himself to the chief and engaged him in conversation.

    The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • All round the arena wherein the two great peoples defy each other the nations wait anxiously for the delivery of the first stroke that shall give the signal for wrath and woe; and, strangely, no one can tell which of the onlookers is the more fervent professor of our

    The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

  • Towering above the onlookers was the frame of what will be the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center, the project's signature building.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Among the onlookers is a little girl who screams when she sees blood on the cobblestones and we follow her gaze to find one of the cardinals dead.

    ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories 2009

  • Kelly Crow Call it a case of art-fair trompe l'oeil: cardboard images of "onlookers" are arranged throughout Jon Kessler

    At Art Basel 2008

  • There would still be "onlookers" to be cleared from the path.

    Insider Baseball Didion, Joan 1988

  • They were barely a yard from each other, and their position was directly beneath the floor of the box which the "onlookers" had occupied.

    The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • The man had swept round the hall, and he and his partner were lost under the balcony beneath the box in which the "onlookers" were sitting.

    The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905

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  • people who're staring at sth

    April 28, 2010