observing
/əb ˈzɜr vɪŋ/
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Definition(s):
- (adj) quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception
Usage(s):
- Last night he and his observing partner, a graduate student named Dan Stark, flew 3,000 miles, from Southern California to Hawaii, where the Kecks are located.
- Fascinated by their reasoning processes, he began to suspect that the key to human knowledge might be discovered by observing how the child's mind develops.
- Before Republicans get too worked up about this, its worth observing that Democracy Corps has typically found a much closer race than other pollsters.
Quotes
- The set of prequels will magically rewind time to Carrie's teen years, when she "began observing and commenting on the social scene," Bushnell said in a statement, adding that she's always been interested in writing about the future sex...on Sep 18, 2008 By: Candace Bushnell Source: MTV.com
- "The behavior in what we are observing in the last seven weeks is identical in many respects to what we saw in 1998, what we saw in the stock-market crash of 1987, I suspect what we saw in the land-boom collapse of 1837 and certainly [the bank panic...on Sep 6, 2007 By: Alan Greenspan Source: Wall Street Journal
- "The doctors were observing me while I was there. They explained to Sheriff (Lee) Baca that they thought I was having severe anxiety, panic attacks, claustrophobia," Hilton told the magazine.on Jun 27, 2007 By: Paris Hilton Source: AFP
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