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gaze

[gayz] / geɪz /




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He retells his memories with an unflinching gaze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

His gaze then drifted once more, devoid of emotion.

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

“We’d like to pay for Charley’s headstone,” Theo says suddenly, gaze focused intently on Mrs. Dannenberg while he ignores my questioning eyes.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

From the top of a wind turbine nearly 100 metres above the ground, Grzegorz Witek, a coal miner, gazes at the horizon.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

In a dream she gazes out from eyes like “great transparent marbles.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

She felt their curious gazes as she whispered, “He took my grandmother.”

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

I gazed out at the familiar white fence, the faded red barn, and the yellow clay road.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

And so at the Humanoid Games, when one robot sprinter reacted to the starting gun by sitting down, then lying on its back and gazing at the sky, viewers saw a fellow casualty of burnout.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

"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

When my yearlong tenure ended, I boarded my flight and soon was gazing out the airplane window over the Rockies.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

She turned her eyes away, gazing out the railcar window at the doors that led from the street into the depot.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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