as in staring
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
just sat there and gazed at the panorama before us until it got too dark to see
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Recent Examples of gazing
The camera then zooms out to show that the athlete is actually inside of a snow globe, which the pop star has been gazing into and shaking.
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
But gazing at the field of red clay just feet away from his front door gives him the feeling that Charlotte’s growth is climbing on top of him.
—Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2025
Dismukes commented, while gazing into Padilla's eyes.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
The footage shows a tabby cat gazing out the window with her back to the camera while a small gray-and-white kitten sits beside her.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
The final shot sees Tom gazing out the window as a curtain gently sways in the warm breeze.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
Mike shook Drew’s hand while gazing at his old car.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Honor’s promo depicts the Robot Phone doing everything from entertaining children and taking selfies to skydiving and gazing at the stars.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
Every detail of a stay is intentionally crafted to create moments that guests will remember long after departure, whether that’s a quiet morning by the creek, a wellness session like our new floating sound healing, or simply gazing at the Red Rocks with a morning coffee.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
But gazing at the field of red clay just feet away from his front door gives him the feeling that Charlotte’s growth is climbing on top of him.
—Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2025
Dismukes commented, while gazing into Padilla's eyes.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
The footage shows a tabby cat gazing out the window with her back to the camera while a small gray-and-white kitten sits beside her.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
The final shot sees Tom gazing out the window as a curtain gently sways in the warm breeze.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
Mike shook Drew’s hand while gazing at his old car.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Honor’s promo depicts the Robot Phone doing everything from entertaining children and taking selfies to skydiving and gazing at the stars.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
Every detail of a stay is intentionally crafted to create moments that guests will remember long after departure, whether that’s a quiet morning by the creek, a wellness session like our new floating sound healing, or simply gazing at the Red Rocks with a morning coffee.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gazing
Verb
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A lot of these schools are staring at declining enrollments, so money is tight on college campuses.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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And then on Thursday, after most of the show had been written, a man collapsed in the Oval Office, generating an instantly meme-able photograph of the president staring into the camera, looking oblivious to efforts to revive the prone victim at stage left.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
9 Nov. 2025
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Here, astronomers are gawking at a radio signal that appears crudely on the screen like a crooked game of Pong but turns out to be a line of data repeated every 78 seconds from 600 light-years away.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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But the cringe-comedy antics of the original NBC series landed far better in Season 3 than in Season 1, once audiences began to truly love the characters instead of just gawking at them.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Gazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gazing. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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