as in to gaze
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband
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as in gaze
a fixed intent look
caught the child's wide-eyed stare on film
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Recent Examples of stare
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Silent and staring straight ahead seated beside defense counsel Yolo County Deputy Public Defender Daniel Hutchinson, Dominguez was clad in a blue Oxford shirt and khaki trousers with a navy blue coat and tie.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
With curly, strawberry-blonde hair and a preternaturally intense stare, Kidman stood out among the 14-year-olds in the Sydney-area youth acting school that a 27-year-old Campion once visited to cast her student film.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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Verb
The most unremarkable appearances of time—the actor staring at his watch—can be entrancing when catalogued.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Silent and staring straight ahead seated beside defense counsel Yolo County Deputy Public Defender Daniel Hutchinson, Dominguez was clad in a blue Oxford shirt and khaki trousers with a navy blue coat and tie.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
Even the mirror against the far wall appears vacant as Cassidy stares, trying to comprehend.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
With curly, strawberry-blonde hair and a preternaturally intense stare, Kidman stood out among the 14-year-olds in the Sydney-area youth acting school that a 27-year-old Campion once visited to cast her student film.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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Verb
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During his four-year interregnum at Mar-a-Lago, Trump gazed down the fairways and concluded that Joe Biden was too diminished to win again.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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Nuggets and Clippers players gazed up at the jumbotron together and tried to litigate the nanoseconds.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
27 Apr. 2025
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After a few decades of gawking at the problem, Washington, under the Biden administration, rallied 139 countries to do something.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Early in the hour, Lochlan is again gawking at a nude Saxon.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Stare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stare. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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