stargazing

present participle of stargaze

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazing
Verb
  • And for a senior-laden Peabody team dreaming of a deep run in the state tournament, this was certainly a step in the right direction.
    Justin Barrasso, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Ann Lee’s impoverished childhood in Manchester is spent dreaming of service to God while feeling revulsion at the physical facts of life.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After learning her daughter will not return to Chile, however, she is forced to stop fantasizing about others’ lives and find comfort in unexpected places.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
  • For something completely different, some investors have been picking up value stocks rather than fantasizing about the possibilities of Silicon Valley’s dream world.
    John Navin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Besides treating anxiety, performance counseling can include efforts to increase concentration and confidence, and visualizing success.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The study authors thought the results were interesting result because these careers involve visualizing real-world maps.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Yet, at several of the city’s top hotels, staffs have been hard at work, completing room upgrades, re-envisioning their food and beverage outlets and crafting inventive experiences.
    Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But others immediately began envisioning the catastrophic potentials of the scientific creation of bizarre new forms of biology.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Top of the National Academies' Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey is a new space telescope that is capable of imaging Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • For the next 25 months, the SPHEREx observatory will orbit Earth more than 11,000 times while surveying and imaging the surrounding sky.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And there was a smattering of other items, which the visitor, fancying himself an amateur academic archeologist, thought worth noting.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Stargazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stargazing. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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