look down (on)

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Verb
  • Over six feet tall and skinny, with a mass of reddish curls, Fleming leaps and bounds across stage while delivering riffs on the bitmoji skills of baby boomers, ballads dedicated to deceased chain craft store Joann’s Fabrics, and Celine Dion’s gamer sons.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The planning area is bounded by Interstate 5 on the east, the city of Del Mar to the west, the city of Solana Beach to the north, and the University community to the south.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Wall Street analysts are bracing for a volatile road ahead for CoreWeave as its massive infrastructure ramp pressures margins and drives up costs.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Few building types constrain their designers more than affordable housing, where the politics are byzantine, budgets meager, rules strict, and margins thin.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • How does the war seem to be affecting the attitude of Iran’s neighboring Arab states?
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Mel had this primer on how the neighboring Gulf territories, normally seen as a safe part of the world, were experiencing shock.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • And after a long day of trekking, there’s nothing so restorative as a dip in the opulent bathtub, fringed by bricks of pink salt from Pakistan, while gazing out at the Nilgiri glowing ethereally in the dusk.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Chromatic aberration is very well controlled, with minimal color fringing even when shooting wide open.
    Tantse Walter, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
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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 10 Mar. 2026.

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