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Early in the game, you’re given the ability to slow down time, a power-up that doesn’t just lead to inventive platforming across rapidly moving razor-sharp knives but the opportunity to gawp further at the spectacle.—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024 But earlier iterations of the fashion show were often peppered with inappropriate jokes at the models’ expense, with its in-studio audience being largely made up of gawping men.—Tara John, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024 As the men gawp on lustily and take locks of hair as a souvenir, a tear falls from Teixeira’s defiant mask.—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024 Locals of all ages throng the lakefront, gawping at the spectacle of it all.—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024 Twin columns once housed in trousers or board shorts have undergone miniskirt-ification, now daring you not to gawp as men’s hemlines rise and rise.—Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 June 2024 Troy Iwata found a guy who stans Joe Biden and just gawped at him in wide-eyed disbelief.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 May 2024 Although the moon’s shadow will arrive like clockwork and bring eerie darkness on schedule, to gawp at the sun’s corona requires a clear sky.—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 Like the passengers gawping at the flames, the reader cannot look away.—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
Word History
Etymology
English dialect gawp to yawn, gape, from obsolete galp, from Middle English
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