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Recent Examples of look on
Biles looks on as Owens throws out the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game, and later, Owens, dressed in a personalized Biles T-shirt, watches the competitions and the scoreboard like a hawk during the Paris Games.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
With crime scene tape still wrapped around the house, dozens of people look on from a driveway across the street.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2024
My friends were confused by my abrupt stop and the frightened and befuddled look on my face — except for one, whose eyes were also bulging wide.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Jenner posted the look on Instagram crediting Rousteing and Balmain.
—Chiara Kim, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
With crime scene tape still wrapped around the house, dozens of people look on from a driveway across the street.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2024
My friends were confused by my abrupt stop and the frightened and befuddled look on my face — except for one, whose eyes were also bulging wide.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Jenner posted the look on Instagram crediting Rousteing and Balmain.
—Chiara Kim, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for look on
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Trump’s policies, Seif said, could end up adding fuel to the fire — and force the Fed to act in a way Trump would not look favorably upon.Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Fans of opening day are looking for that oomph to carry you through a long season of ups and downs.Frederick Dreier and Adam Roy, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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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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The crowds watched the canyon keenly, peering through zoom lenses and binoculars and eyeglasses.Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
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The white exterior peered at me with flat orifices obscured through the mist, barely distinguishable from the dark sky behind it, as though all the world beyond the dome was cut from the same slab, only slightly effaced.Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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On both deterrence and defense spending, by contrast, the Trump administration could be poised to address glaring vulnerabilities from the start.Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Musselman had been pretty open about USC’s glaring question marks at center, where the Trojans have just two players over 6-8 — Cohen and 6-10 returner Harrison Hornery, neither of whom are really the physical, low-post type of big man.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Those problems were worsened by a January incident in which a door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines jet soon after takeoff, leaving a gaping hole in its fuselage.Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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The New York Mets have a gaping hole to fill at first base now that Pete Alonso is officially a free agent.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Military gear was on display in the exhibition hall where it was viewed by Sergei Shoigu, reported state media outlet the Global Times.Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The holiday display typically runs from November through January, with holiday shoppers and tourists often viewing the light display in conjunction with the nearby Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Look on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look%20on. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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