as in to stare
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade
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Recent Examples of goggle
Over and over, we are invited to goggle at such amazingness.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
Mok, the former second-in-command of the Yellow Neck daofei, goggled his eyes in surprise.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Any human eye, goggled by a car’s windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.
—Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
Hippos goggled at us from their muddy pools; crocodiles blinked from sandbanks.
—Paul Theroux, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
Mok, the former second-in-command of the Yellow Neck daofei, goggled his eyes in surprise.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Any human eye, goggled by a car’s windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.
—Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
Hippos goggled at us from their muddy pools; crocodiles blinked from sandbanks.
—Paul Theroux, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
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The traditional media business has been staring at these multiple roads for years now, and none of them are anywhere near as bucolic as Frost’s woods.Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Most of Mars’s subjects stare straight into her lens.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news For thousands of years, gazing upward was how astronomers studied the sky above.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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And the panels, stocked with multiple top personalities, give viewers something new upon which to gaze.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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There are plenty of examples along Route 66 of people putting history behind plexiglass and charging tourists for the opportunity to gawk.Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Bystanders gathered and gawked as the creek steadily swelled, while tree trunks, branches and other debris piled up under one of the creek’s bridges.Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Goggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goggle. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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