PEERED Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

peered

verb

past tense of peer

as in stared

to look long and hard in wonder or surprise visitors seem mesmerized as they peer at the variety of marine life in the aquarium's huge tank

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Recent Examples of peered Gay comedian Sam Oh peered over to his roastee, Julian Stern, and prepared his first stream of jabs at his straight counterpart. —

Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026 Bob’s grandfather peered through the fence at League Park to catch a glimpse of Game 1 of the 1920 World Series. —

Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 May 2026 Until Korolev peered at it a few years ago, no one had ever seen the mineral in nature. —

James Dinneen, Scientific American, 14 May 2026 Squad cars from other departments in nearby suburbs and the Illinois State Police sat in traffic crawling north on Sheridan as neighbors peered up the street from in front of their high-rises. —

Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 Soon after the lockdown alarm blared through the school, a group of teachers in a teacher’s lounge peered out into the hallway and spotted a student near the library. —

Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 1 May 2026 The reporter peered outside and saw a group of mostly women being held by security. —

Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered 10,000 light-years into space to trace the origin of buckyballs, which are large and hollow molecules resembling a soccer ball. —

Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026 Christel Krueger peered through thick glass and murky water at the Berlin Zoo, staring in awe at a mother hippopotamus and her child sleeping on a sandbar. —

ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026

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Everyone stared in silence at the man’s rudeness.

— Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
The two stared each other down with security guards in between them.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026