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- noun Plural form of
sighter .
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Examples
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I'm one of the "iron-sighters are the best thing ever" crowd!
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The problem is not that UFO sighters are imbalanced, some scientists say, but rather that they do not scrutinize their experiences adequately — which is often hard to do, because the environment is filled with mysterious phenomena.
‘Demons in the Dark’ 2008
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Kucinich asked him to repeat that number, as if to thank him for inadvertently providing him with the UFO sighters vote.
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The cottage industry that sprang up within a day of Kennedy's assassination (when Time-Life bought Mr. Zapruder's 8-mm film for $150,000) now encompasses more than 2,000 book titles, a half-dozen newsletters (The Grassy Knoll Gazette), several computer networks, Oliver Stone's "JFK" and this issue of NEWSWEEK. But the consumers in question aren't exactly Trekkies or Elvis-sighters.
True Disbelievers 2008
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In Olympic shooting also one was allowed ten sighters in each position - ten chances of adjusting one's sights before one came to the forty rounds which counted for scoring.
Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981
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In that street in Norwich I was not going to get ten sighters.
Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981
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The theoretic effective radius of this rifle is three hundred miles, but the best they can do in actual service when equipped with their wireless finders and sighters is but a trifle over two hundred miles.
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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The theoretic effective radius of this rifle is three hundred miles, but the best they can do in actual service when equipped with their wireless finders and sighters is but a trifle over two hundred miles.
A Princess of Mars 1912
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Roddy to think that if, from the house, the inmates noted the two young men in a public carriage, peering at their home, they would regard the strangers only as impertinent sighters.
The White Mice Richard Harding Davis 1890
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A costly couple of wides gives Daniel Smith a few extra sighters.
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