gaze
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed an important series of tests showing that it can keep its gaze extremely steady during observations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Under the gaze of actress Rosario Dawson, pieces by designer Ermanno Daelli took on a rock and sexy edge, while remaining adaptable to many summer outfits.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
My gaze drifted to the bartenders, who seemed bored, waiting for the evening rush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Oliver’s gaze cut to me, and he mouthed Sorry.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Dogs became extraordinarily sensitive to human behavior, following our gazes and gestures and learning our patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
At one point in the clip, the white pup gazes adoringly at the NFL star before hopping onto a couch to snuggle beside him while Kelce lovingly pets the pooch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Three months after state vets seized and killed hundreds of his sheep to stamp out an ongoing pox pandemic, Kostas Theofilou fights back tears as he gazes at his empty stable.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Lizbeth Perez looks fearful as she gazes out onto the postcard-perfect fishing bay of Taganga, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, recalling the moment she last spoke to her uncle in September.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
She gazes at me quietly, with nothing to add.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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Having gazed at it onscreen dozens of times, including in the hyper-crisp 16K resolution of the Sphere, this in-person viewing was the first time I realized how Bert Lahr wriggled it on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
When he gazed at the camera as Pennywise the clown, the resulting alert conveyed no concern about the menacing visage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Thirty-five-year-old Javier Silva gazed longingly at a Yamaha parked on the street.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
Near a migrant reception centre in Las Palmas, a major city in the Canary Islands, Ousmane Ly, a recently arrived 25-year-old Senegalese man, gazed at the beach.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
The little girl took it without hesitation and gazed up at the kind headmistress with a trusting smile.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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"I'm crystal ball gazing and can do it reasonably well on a good day, but nowhere near with the clarity of the nanopore, which gives a comprehensive molecular classification," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The storyline is inscrutable, but Walters displays real range, gazing forlornly in the rain, hurling dishes at a wall, grinning and giving high-fives when a family takes him bowling.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
That, and sitting in salt rooms and mud baths or gazing at the bottom of our stand mixer’s bowl.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
He was gazing at Nantucket Harbor, where ferries were turning toward the mainland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
She smiled at me as she pushed the hair off my forehead, just gazing at my face.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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