detached observer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdetachedandobserver
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detached
adjective
uk/dɪˈtætʃt/us/dɪˈtætʃt/
separated:
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observer
noun[C]
uk/əbˈzɜː.vər/us/əbˈzɝː.vɚ/
a person who watches what happens but has no active part ...
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(Definition ofdetachedandobserverfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First, it was made with the air of adetachedobserver, a commentator.
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I understand that he has been adetachedobserverthroughout all the proceedings.
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Thedetachedobservermight take a certain amount of quiet amusement from this ebb and flow of opinion.
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He spoke as a tired,detachedobserverdealing with facts for which he had no responsibility whatever.
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Perhaps she would like to expand on that rather novel thought, particularly as the changes are, from the point of view of a verydetachedobserver, hardly complete.
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I hope there is less disagreement about the principle of taking certain actions which, in the eyes of adetachedobserver, are manifestly unfair and labelling them "unfair practices".
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This is only cottage property, situated among property belonging to the local authority, and to anydetachedobserverthis cottage would be taken as belonging to the local authority.
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Although the parties are at present very wide apart, to a fairlydetachedobserverit looks as if there is scope for settlement, because it is not a depressed industry.
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Adetachedobservermight feel that the urgent requirement was to restore to industry its ability to earn profits and thus to attract investment through a revived capital market.
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A "flneur" thus played a double role in city life and in theory, that is, while remaining adetachedobserver.
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The detached watchdog is an absolutelydetachedobserver.
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We were commissioned to write the mapping report because we made effective play of our expertise as academics, as detached observers.
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But donors and creditors are not disinterested, detached observers of world events.
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