glance (at)

as in to look over

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Verb
  • Advertisement After Homan expressed frustration that the bill wasn’t sailing through Congress and returned to his front row seat, Trump looked over at Homan and smiled.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 26 June 2025
  • Archaeologists began working on the site looking over the town of Alès in February, and have now revealed the discoveries made there, according to a June 24 news release from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
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  • The business scans for games, too, helping to create accurate, photo-realistic avatars of, for example, your favorite athletes.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • Sophisticated algorithms can scan entire genomes, mapping how thousands of tiny genetic variations interact.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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“Glance (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glance%20%28at%29. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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