as in to gaze
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband
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as in gaze
a fixed intent look
caught the child's wide-eyed stare on film
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Recent Examples of stare
Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
TikTok is staring at a potential ban in the U.S. if the Supreme Court decides to uphold a national security law in which service providers such as Apple and Google would be penalized for hosting the app after the Sunday deadline.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
Zach Harper, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
But open it and immediately get transported into a black-and-white world of drifters with piercing, thousand-yard stares, and dusty, unforgiving landscapes and structures.
—Donny Bajohr, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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The pup stares at the camera with what can only be described as a look of remorse before lying down on the bed, her head low as the video ends.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
TikTok is staring at a potential ban in the U.S. if the Supreme Court decides to uphold a national security law in which service providers such as Apple and Google would be penalized for hosting the app after the Sunday deadline.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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
But open it and immediately get transported into a black-and-white world of drifters with piercing, thousand-yard stares, and dusty, unforgiving landscapes and structures.
—Donny Bajohr, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Stare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stare. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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