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glimpsed

verb as in look briefly

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Hundreds of years ago the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street.

Egos flare, tempers simmer over, and occasionally true culinary genius and ingenuity is glimpsed.

I first glimpsed 11-year-old Yussef Mohamed tenderly cleaning the face of someone wounded.

Maybe our president has learned that he leads us best when he follows what Romano glimpsed in those piercingly tranquil eyes.

But unlike the legendary climber, she only glimpsed but never quite reached the summit.

The doubt he had of her a few moments before vanished; he did not question but what he had glimpsed into her naked soul.

He glimpsed a moving figure in there—heard a faint rustling.

Now he glimpsed its opponent culture, about which more was generally known.

Frank Nelsen had glimpsed ancient Mars, preserved on the Moon.

Tam saw Lasky die and glimpsed the flaming wreck of the boy's machine as it fell, then he found himself attacked on two sides.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to glimpsed, such as: peek, check out, spy, eye, sight, and flash.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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