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• n  a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
• n  an expert who observes and comments on something

• Says the observer: "There's a lot bubbling under the surface today.
• Flying over enemy territory, a reconnaissance observer spies, for example, an enemy force cunningly deployed to command a road below.
• This much is wonderful: Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories, in which he imagines an observer named Folke (Tomas Norstrom) perched in a sort of tennis umpire's chair .

• perceiver
• percipient
• beholder
• commentator

News & Articles

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• all-observer girls track field
  2013 ALL-OBSERVER
  June 16, 2013 - Westland Observer
• Observer Forum: Letters to the editor
  Wednesday’s Observer had a front-page article about an innocent man murdered by gun. (“Struggle, shots, death in seconds”).
  June 13, 2013 - The Charlotte Observer
• Observer reporter selected for fellowship
  The Observer’s Katy Nesbitt will be heading to Montana at the end of the month as a fellow for the 2013 Crown of the Continent Institute. The institute, an all-expenses paid learning expedition, is one of many offered by the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.
  June 13, 2013 - La Grande Observer

Quotes

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• Kofi Annan in San Francisco Chronicle
  I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a UN Observer post in southern Lebanon,Annan said in the statement.
• John McCain in Washington Post
  Any rational observer would say that if the war's lost, then someone won the war,McCain responded. "Al-Qaida will win that war."
• Tom Lantos in FOXNews
  I don't believe it,said Democratic Rep. Tom Lantos of California, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "Every objective observer seems to think the State Department's projections are wildly unrealistic."