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Recent Examples of leer
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
If this was a decade ago, maybe Charli just enlists the guy from The Dare to be her leering co-star, and the results are fun but uninspiring.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2024
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Noun
The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Verb
Lilia follows a creepy girl in a dress through the house, only to find ghoulish undead witches leering at her.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
If this was a decade ago, maybe Charli just enlists the guy from The Dare to be her leering co-star, and the results are fun but uninspiring.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leer
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Radek looked at him from the side, an appraising stare.Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
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What endures through all of the yelling and conjecture around James, his greatness and his unprecedented career, is this stare caught on camera.Zach Harper, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
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There is no greater pastime in West Texas than simply, and somewhat reverently, ogling one’s surroundings, especially at sunrise and sunset.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
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The dining room was all warm, wooden paneling that undulated across the ceiling, booths like half-moons and mostly quiet tables ogling each course … and the champagne cart that coasted throughout the room.Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
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His eyebrows were drawn together, his gaze was sharp, even his gentle-looking lips were closed tight.Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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But in the early days of 2025, the X owner has turned his gaze towards the UK.David Gilbert, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The Matlock star eyed the camera while jokingly ripping up a piece of paper.Brendan Le, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Now watchdogs are eyeing more than just profit reporting.Noah Barsky, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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The panel is an ultra-low glare design, too, thanks to premium low-reflection technology, and supports wider viewing angles than regular LCD models.John Archer, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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This image's fiery glare, eyes swirled in their galactic arms, is a combination of mixed-spectrum captures using the James Webb Space Telescope for mid-infrared light, and the Hubble Space Telescope for visible and ultraviolet light.Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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Jayne and their team also realized additional implications after studying and extrapolating the scalability ratio between their mouth gapes and cranial structures.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
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That’s two-thirds of its own mass, and 93% of its maximal gape area.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
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At first glance, ostrich didn’t seem the most climate-friendly option (beans), the most ethical (beans again), or the tastiest (pork, in my personal opinion).Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2025
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At first glance, the contests hold little mystery: Democrats have significant advantages in the State House district and one of the two State Senate districts that are up for grabs, while the other district in the upper chamber is all but certain to remain in Republican hands.Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Leer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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