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Recent Examples of gaper
This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
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Joe Jackson,
Outside Online,
18 Oct. 2022
Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
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Michelle L. Quinn,
chicagotribune.com,
20 Oct. 2021
The winner of this challenge is Gabe — his first Quickfire win of the season, for making poached gaper clams and butter clams in broth.
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Vulture,
7 July 2021
Joe Jackson,
Outside Online,
18 Oct. 2022
Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
—
Michelle L. Quinn,
chicagotribune.com,
20 Oct. 2021
The winner of this challenge is Gabe — his first Quickfire win of the season, for making poached gaper clams and butter clams in broth.
—
Vulture,
7 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaper
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Not exactly—there’s only so many people there to buy art, and plenty of others are there to rubberneck.
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Many in the art world have been watching — though often to rubberneck.
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The Department’s mistake is to worry about Sarah instead of Zoë, the professional snooper.
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It is turned off by default—anything that can store this kind of history is something that a snooper or domestic abuser could access.
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For now, a bipartisan housing bill and the renewal of a key spy program have become casualties of those standoffs, and their fate was in limbo as Senate Republicans left for the July 4 recess.
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Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman, known to fans of AppleTV series Slow Horses as the shambolic, gassy spy Jackson Lamb, will be honored at this year Edinburgh Television Festival with the fest’s lifetime achievement honor, the Golden Icon Award.
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Similar to how goggles protect your peepers from chlorine (and the burning feeling that can follow after opening your eyes in a swimming pool), goggles work very well to combat onion tears, Hale says.
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The House advanced the bill codifying the peeper’s status, House Bill 5534, this week by a vote of 136-0.
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In fact, the NFLPA filed an amicus brief effectively against Clarett, portraying him as an interloper of sorts.
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Later, a gray squirrel expressed its displeasure at an interloper disrupting its peace.
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After what was initially reported as a home intruder, police found a 10-foot alligator swimming in the pool, PEOPLE previously reported.
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Which had been locked by the emergency intruder alert.
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Wrestlers like Garcia and Stewart have achieved what Morrison has set his sights on, but Morrison isn’t a star gazer.
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Linda Tripp, world-famous buttinsky , Dropped a dime on M. Lewinsky.
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Rather, the story is set in motion by Kevin O’Neill (Rick Holmes), a private-equity manager and arrogant buttinsky who takes an interest in Cara.
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“Gaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaper. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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