behold

"I looked inside the front cover and, lo and behold, on the second page there was a Kiama Library stamp," Simmons said, with the library's borrowing conditions also detailed on the inside cover.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

With so many eye-catching objects to behold, the watercolors and manuscripts, as refined as they are, can seem overshadowed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

The charge into chips by investors has been something to behold.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

“Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

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

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

In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

On the other hand, she receives great kindness and hospitality from nomadic families and beholds, with awe, pristine landscapes and spectacular, star-spangled night skies.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2019

“The intuitive soul,” says Hegel, “oversteps the conditions of time and space; it beholds things remote, things long past, and things to come.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

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

He and countless others who had tuned in via social media beheld the flames with awe as they silhouetted a seemingly doomed ski lift terminal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024

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

When we first beheld our most important Wolf-Rayet target, a star designated WR 104, on a computer monitor, it was a shimmering spiral that resembled a weirdly distorted Christmas bauble.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

She thought this the most moving sight she had ever beheld: a regiment of black, newly freed South Carolinians wearing the uniform of the Union forces, escorted by the band of a white regiment.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

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

“The Times posed the question, ‘Will Swift ever voluntarily step away from the spotlight?’ as if beholding a woman in full flow and power invariably summoned the fantasy of her involuntary removal from the scene.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

“And I was beholding it in a Starbucks.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

“He looks as skinny as a rail,” Regina said upon beholding her famous son, and she almost burst into tears.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady