glance (at)

verb

Definition of glance (at)next
as in to look over

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  1. look over
  2. scan
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  • At the picnic table, Anna then turns to look over her shoulder, and the screen cuts to X-ray vision, the music goes grim and the finale ends.
    — Benjamin VanHoose, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
  • But Burke did not look over at the victim’s parents, who sat stoically in the courtroom in the row right in front of me.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 22 July 2026
Definition of look over
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  • That model now carries about 90% of the workload in Microsoft’s vulnerability-scanning system.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Inside, tiny screws whizzed along a production line as high-resolution cameras scanned them for microscopic problems.
    — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
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“Glance (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glance%20%28at%29. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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