as in to resort (to)
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look up
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Muñoz looked up before delivering a low cross into the Manchester City box which found the onrushing Eze perfectly.—
Thomas Schlachter,
CNN Money,
17 May 2025 -
Researchers led by Elise Wright Knutsen, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oslo, waited for the right conditions and commanded Perseverance to look up at exactly the right time.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 May 2025
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“Happen (by).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/happen%20%28by%29. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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