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Over the past two weeks, the mad scramble for upside exposure in the U.S. equities market has been a sight to behold, according to Nomura’s Charlie McElligott.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

"And lo and behold, here I am. So I'm very grateful."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Both indoors and out, Porter proved that there was beauty where one was inclined to behold it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The Hutchinson Himalayas are a site to behold — a mile-long museum of municipal neglect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

It was a beautiful sight to behold, the struggle of the carp to regain his abode before the river dried to a trickle and trapped him in strange pools of water.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Arriving at the high point of the journey, elevation-wise, Ms. Kessler beholds the Cruz de Ferro, an iron cross regarded as an important source of spiritual uplift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

And in the making of “Sincerely,” which beholds her most revealing lyrics yet, authenticity was key.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

In the aria, Sara, Duchess of Nottingham, is hiding her tears from everyone but the audience as she beholds in the tragic tale of the Fair Rosamund a reflection of her own lovelorn grief.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2021

But Nature calls the poet to her aid, And in his lays beholds her glory live For ever.

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson

At least, it did until very recently, when we fully beheld the wretched manifestations of Meta’s desperate A.I. push.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2025

She hiked uphill from her riverside worksite and beheld a vista of sheer mountain slopes unbroken by rivers or streams.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

Howsare argues that what Europeans beheld was the opposite of paradise — in fact “a landscape in crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

It remains firmly planted in our hearts, just as it was in the hearts of the shepherds when they first beheld the baby in the manger.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

When this beautiful disaster had been made, Zeus brought her out and wonder took hold of gods and men when they beheld her.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

There is a particular thrill in beholding a portrait as old and as lifelike as Isidora’s, just over a foot in height and 6 inches wide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Still, while beholding this inspiring mobilization, a basic question kept nagging at me: How do you even get tens of thousands of people in one Zoom call, let alone 100,000?

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024

Allison meets Viktor when she returns and, upon beholding his true presentation, chastises herself for not realizing it all along.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2022

Standing in one of these bathrooms you realize that you are beholding a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

Sunshine, in fact, bathed the entire afghan, and the play of warm, brilliant light in the pale-blue wool was in itself well worth beholding.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger