look (on or upon)

as in to consider
to think of in a particular way you could call the comment mean-spirited, but I do not look on it that way at all

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Verb
  • The Pac-12 is reportedly considering something similar.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • If the Dodgers are in town, consider catching a ball game.
    Sheila Yasmin Marikar, AFAR Media, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Comments Each week, Deal or No Deal Island host, game master, and executive producer Joe Manganiello will weigh in with Entertainment Weekly regarding the latest events on the Banker's Island.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Montenegro submitted himself to the confidence vote after he was accused of a potential conflict of interest regarding a family law firm.
    Helena Alves and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • However, today most young people rarely call each other.
    Andrea Wigfield, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Marx himself would call DEI a classic case of ideology, a set of benign-seeming ideas that disguise the workings of the rulers, in this case empowered progressives.
    WSJ, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • Now, thanks to Joseph Lipton and Michelle Friar, there’s a new way to view it—in style—from the shoreside rooms at the Viewpoint Hotel.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The clip has been viewed over 525,000 times and received over 15,000 likes.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • When the tour was initially announced, Billboard projected that final earnings of $294 million on sales of 1.1-1.2 million tickets, with the additional dates — not counting the second Vegas show — potentially boosting that figure to more than $325 million.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Murder victim's family has been 'counting down the minutes' until South Carolina execution Texas pastor with simple dream killed in his own church.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Turk-Browne believes there are multiple possible explanations, including the theory that those recollections simply never make it to the long-term storage regions of the brain.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2025
  • About six people, believed to be teenagers, fled the house and ran into the nearby Edenwald Houses, according to police sources.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The plan is to go clubbing, and right away things start to feel dodgy.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • At that stage, 51 minutes in, an away win felt like a formality.
    Beren Cross, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Why Skipping Is The Ultimate Plyometric Exercise Most think of skipping as something kids do.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • To make matters worse, Brooklyn’s family thinks that Brian is just using her for the trust fund that she’s inherited from her recently deceased father.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Look (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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