gaze
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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
When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
We gaze proudly at these little icons clocking up points like they're family.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Instead, they shift our gaze west, toward white neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
His gaze softens, and I see the real Mr. Harris show himself.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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
Her fingers constantly twist a tissue as she tries to maintain her composure and she gazes into the distance as tears well up behind her glasses.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
On a boat off the coast of California, Sara Lesser gazes wistfully at dozens of dolphins playing in the vessel's wake.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
I mean an actor who gazes at their scene partner with such delight that we swoon, too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
She doesn’t say a whole lot to anyone—mostly just gazes out the window at the passing landscape—but the handful of times she and Scoob make eye contact, she smiles at him.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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Shouts of joy and applause broke out as hundreds of people gathered in a heat-scorched field gazed at the sky at the moment darkness fell.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
A chocolate brown Great Dane puppy with blue eyes and a teal collar sitting on a tile floor gazed at me from my computer screen — I squealed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
“I thought those hieroglyphics were some kind of secret wise sayings,” I said as I gazed at the faded symbols on the obelisk.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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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
The youngest son in a hodgepodge home, he wrote this memoir in 1993, gazing over his family’s 20th-century history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I’m a regular person, like you,” Hal says, gazing directly through the fourth wall at the tiny people he assumes are worshipping him from afar.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We are all one family,” she said, gazing at the family tree written out before her.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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