disinterested observer

collocation in English

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disinterested
adjective
uk
/dɪˈsɪn.trə.stɪd/us
/dɪˈsɪn.trə.stɪd/
having no personal involvement or receiving no personal advantage, and therefore free to ...
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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 ofdisinterestedandobserverfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For processualists, the perspective is a 'view from nowhere', which postulates a disembodied,disinterestedobserverentirely separate from what is observed.
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They served to portray the author as adisinterestedobserverand his accounts as unclouded and undistorted mirrors of nature.
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No responsible government can be adisinterestedobserverof an unhealthy nation.
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Anydisinterestedobserverwould see that mounting such a case is impossible.
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In fact, adisinterestedobservermight doubt whether it presented a picture of still life or of slow motion.
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It would appear to adisinterestedobserverto be an anomaly.
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I speak in this short but important debate as adisinterestedobserver, but one with an engineering background.
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It seems clear to thedisinterestedobserverthat, on the whole, the large library authorities are very efficient.
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That is the conclusion of a visitor, a stranger and a completelydisinterestedobserver, and the tragedy of it is that it is literally and absolutely true.
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These are the accounts of honest, disinterested observers.
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Those who have expressed their views most vociferously are the representatives of the media, who can hardly be said to be disinterested observers.
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