observe
verb (used with object)
to see, watch, perceive, or notice.
observes
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present tense formof observe (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“These responses are necessarily assumptions,” observes economist Jeffrey L. Hoopes of the University of North Carolina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Calvasina observes, however, that tech outside of the United States still looks appealing on performance, valuation and demand metrics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Alito is especially skilled in bringing together five justices for a majority on some of the Court’s most difficult and contentious issues,” she observes.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
F1 pulls it off by constructing a bubble where almost everyone observes the fiction that they are still in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
An 1870s account, quoted in Into the Mountains, observes: “Mt. Lafayette is...a true alp, with peaks and crags on which lightnings play, its sides brown with scars and deep with gorges.”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
