look down (on)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for look down (on)
Verb
  • As the other dogs gathered in a small pack, Rylo ran in circles and bounded toward them, hoping to join in the fun.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • While the immediate retooling impacts the auto workforce across the state, the shifts also affect the international competition where experts think China and Europe are leaps and bounds ahead of American EV technology and adoption.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Medicare Advantage enrollment directly influences UnitedHealth’s profitability—the mix and quality of plans that enrollees choose drives government bonuses and margin differences.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • As volume grows, so does margin leverage — which explains why their operating margins have expanded so violently.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • Authorities identified the shooter as Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of the neighboring small town of Burton.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers tracked one of the suspects to a house backyard neighboring the Shiner's home and found Jillian armed with a handgun before an officer shot her.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Northern Pacific Coast, Oregon The Oregon coast has stunning coastal scenery fringed by forests.
    Claire Trageser, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Look down (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look%20down%20%28on%29. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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