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
In the Kardashian-Jenner version, Jenner, in a plunging black dress, played the part of Loren, gazing over at Kardashian who smiled at the camera in a blonde wig and plunging white silk dress.
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Meg Walters, InStyle, 31 Jan. 2026
So having another person in her space was always a little surprising, even if the curator, gazing at her with his usual mix of mild reproach and gauzy concern, seemed not abundantly different from the empty chair.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Benedict finds Sophie alone in a room, gazing up at the stars.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Unlike some of Dubai’s city centre skyscrapers, where rooms are hermetically sealed within glass and steel, every accommodation comes with its own spacious balcony for lounging and gazing at the sun setting over the sea or the city lighting up at dusk.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
The two of them say nothing, instead just gazing at each other.
—Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
Across several generations, readers suffered through the star-gazing genre like Sky Rocket, absurdist efforts like Merton at the Movies and also the manic depressive Day of the Locust.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
During warmups, fans couldn’t stop gazing at his fresh steppers, quickly identifying them as The Roger Pro Fire sneakers from On, which are currently going for $220 in Curry’s White/Pink colorway of choice.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Jan. 2026
But Trump has been gazing past the midterms and toward his own legacy.
—Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
Meg Walters, InStyle, 31 Jan. 2026
So having another person in her space was always a little surprising, even if the curator, gazing at her with his usual mix of mild reproach and gauzy concern, seemed not abundantly different from the empty chair.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Benedict finds Sophie alone in a room, gazing up at the stars.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Unlike some of Dubai’s city centre skyscrapers, where rooms are hermetically sealed within glass and steel, every accommodation comes with its own spacious balcony for lounging and gazing at the sun setting over the sea or the city lighting up at dusk.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
The two of them say nothing, instead just gazing at each other.
—Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
Across several generations, readers suffered through the star-gazing genre like Sky Rocket, absurdist efforts like Merton at the Movies and also the manic depressive Day of the Locust.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
During warmups, fans couldn’t stop gazing at his fresh steppers, quickly identifying them as The Roger Pro Fire sneakers from On, which are currently going for $220 in Curry’s White/Pink colorway of choice.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Jan. 2026
But Trump has been gazing past the midterms and toward his own legacy.
—Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gazing
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Regardless of how the strike turns out, Laurel Lucia, deputy executive director for the Labor Center at UC Berkeley, said the health care industry in California is staring at considerable changes to its business landscape.—
Pat Maio,
Oc Register,
31 Jan. 2026
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Alessandro Michele, at Valentino, was also thinking of how to collide reality and fantasy, staging his collection in nooks inspired by the kaiser panorama, an early 20th century precursor to cinema, in which viewers sat around a circle, staring into a contraption displaying slides.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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If gawking at celebrities is your thing.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2026
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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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“Gazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gazing. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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