gape
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Scientology remains this subgenre’s biggest recurring star, even as we seasonally gape at and praise the high-power talent that legitimizes it.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2024
As geology fans gape at video feeds that show incandescent rocks blowing from El Popo’s peak, those who live along its flanks have watched with respect and a noteworthy lack of trepidation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2023
Shops are closed and apartment blocks gape with broken windows.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2022
Mr Kinnock, who was director of the British Council in St Petersburg from 2005 to 2008, said time spent there taught him there was a huge gape between the Russian public and the country's leadership.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2022
At night, seated at a crude table, with a kerosene lamp spluttering at my elbow, I would fill out insurance applications, and a sharecropper family, fresh from laboring in the fields, would stand and gape.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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