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The discourse around these celebrities shouldn’t center, for instance, on whatever message their body image might be sending to young people who look up to them.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
A nonstop pipeline of carefully controlled information, as well as people to look up and listen to, is deemed—by the leaders behind this fictional authoritarian society—to be the best way to control the people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
In many states, you can look up a contractor’s credentials and complaints against them in government-run databases for free.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
"There's always someone that we can look up to and just say 'if it was them, why not me?',"
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
I laugh and look up at him, and the way he searches my eyes, like he can see inside me, makes my stomach hitch in a weird way.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
