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staring

adverb as in agape

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“So it’s not like sitting there staring at a map. It’s really engaging with something that children would naturally tend to gravitate toward at this age.”

"For Charlie, we will never shrink, we will never cower, and we will never falter, even when we are staring down the barrel of a gun."

From BBC

There’s a look in his eye like a hungry mutt staring at a butcher shop window: pathetic and moony and flummoxed by how to get what he wants.

When the Dodgers clinched that title, Kershaw was seen staring up into the heavens, thankful that redemption was finally his.

She noticed her uncle’s feet were bloodied from walking on broken glass in sandals and he was staring off into the distance and appeared to be in a fog.

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

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