look on
verb
looked on; looking on; looks on
: watch sense 3b
looked on anxiously from the sidelines
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How has that evolved, your position of looking on results as not necessarily successes or failures but merely outcomes?
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Staff Reports, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2025
And just like in Reyes’ 2023 attack on Guerra, the couple’s sons, now 8 and 10, looked on in horror, prosecutors said at Reyes’ arraignment Tuesday in Bronx Criminal Court.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025
Jackets defenseman Dante Fabbro was backpedaling when the puck hopped over his stick and continued right into Robertson’s path for a clean look on Merzlikins.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
One of the movie’s best gags involves a white girl Instagram influencer, Bethany (Maude Apatow), who moves into the complex with all her shiny white-girl stuff as the rest of its Black residents look on in disbelief.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
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Staff Reports, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2025
And just like in Reyes’ 2023 attack on Guerra, the couple’s sons, now 8 and 10, looked on in horror, prosecutors said at Reyes’ arraignment Tuesday in Bronx Criminal Court.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025
Jackets defenseman Dante Fabbro was backpedaling when the puck hopped over his stick and continued right into Robertson’s path for a clean look on Merzlikins.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
One of the movie’s best gags involves a white girl Instagram influencer, Bethany (Maude Apatow), who moves into the complex with all her shiny white-girl stuff as the rest of its Black residents look on in disbelief.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Look on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20on. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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