look through

Example Sentences

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Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

Although the central bank could look through the country’s near-term inflation spike, breaching the higher end of its target would likely warrant policy action to anchor inflation expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

They are willing to look through software’s pain because the mega-caps are doing enough lifting.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Matejka and team acknowledge inflation may increase perhaps 1.5 percentage points on a year-over-year basis but central banks are likely to look through this.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Flesh-and-blood people in photographs look at the camera, but stone people look through the camera straight at you.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell