look over
verb
looked over; looking over; looks over
: to inspect or examine especially in a cursory way
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Security footage shows Shriner emerging barefoot from her residence with gun in hand and then walking around the backyard, looking over the area.
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Elizabeth Stanton, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Buffett makes decisions as if a shareholder is always looking over his shoulder.
—Adrian Gostick, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Yet looking over her memories, Huston sees the character of Lady Tressilian really as a palimpsest from a lifetime of nostalgic fantasy.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
The eighty-one-year-old Crumb, dressed in a long dark coat and his trademark fedora and Coke-bottle glasses, looked over his drawings as if trying to place old acquaintances at a party.
—Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Elizabeth Stanton, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Buffett makes decisions as if a shareholder is always looking over his shoulder.
—Adrian Gostick, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Yet looking over her memories, Huston sees the character of Lady Tressilian really as a palimpsest from a lifetime of nostalgic fantasy.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
The eighty-one-year-old Crumb, dressed in a long dark coat and his trademark fedora and Coke-bottle glasses, looked over his drawings as if trying to place old acquaintances at a party.
—Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Look over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20over. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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