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The Warriors won Game 3 at Chase Center on Saturday night, 104-93, as Butler looked on from the bench in street clothes with a pelvic injury and glute contusion and Golden State took a 2-1 lead in the series.
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani looks on while on base during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Los Angeles, Sunday, April 27, 2025.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 27 Apr. 2025
Abby, who’s been waiting to do this for years, grabs a golf club and sets about destroying Joel as her companions look on in mounting horror.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Francis, for his part, would look on from the Casa Santa Marta, having shown confidence in the Church as a whole through his willingness to cede power to a colleague more fully able to exercise it.
—Paul Elie, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani looks on while on base during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Los Angeles, Sunday, April 27, 2025.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 27 Apr. 2025
Abby, who’s been waiting to do this for years, grabs a golf club and sets about destroying Joel as her companions look on in mounting horror.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Francis, for his part, would look on from the Casa Santa Marta, having shown confidence in the Church as a whole through his willingness to cede power to a colleague more fully able to exercise it.
—Paul Elie, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for look on
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After a memorable Game 4 victory to take a 3-1 series lead, the Knicks looked poised to take care of business in five games, especially with Boston losing Jayson Tatum to an Achilles injury.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Some companies will look to outside data scientists and software specialists to get started.—
Claus Jepsen,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The goal was to execute highly choreographed, ultra-precise movements, all while staring directly at the audience.—
Andrew Lampert,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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At school the next day, he was treated as an art piece, in which his classmates stopped and stared.—
Akili King,
Essence,
30 Apr. 2025
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During his four-year interregnum at Mar-a-Lago, Trump gazed down the fairways and concluded that Joe Biden was too diminished to win again.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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Nuggets and Clippers players gazed up at the jumbotron together and tried to litigate the nanoseconds.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
27 Apr. 2025
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Jason Tapp peers into the leafy, shin-high overgrowth and points to headstones concealed by green weeds in the back of the cemetery.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
8 May 2025
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Since its launch in 1999, Chandra has allowed scientists to peer into some of the universe's most extreme environments, from the turbulent remnants of exploded stars to the superheated gas swirling around black holes.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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Every report card had one glaring Not Satisfactory for talking too much.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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That such wide combinations were such a glaring theme of an electric first half points to not only a change of shape, but a change in attitude, too.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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No one wants a gaping hole running some 35 feet into the ground to open in front of their business.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
13 May 2025
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The cutbacks could carve gaping holes in the operating budgets of municipal housing authorities.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 May 2025
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But federal unions and Democratic lawmakers view the moves as unlawful and disruptive to public services.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
10 May 2025
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Romance Stories And Our Minds Some researchers view literary fiction and romance tales as bearing on our cognitive capacities and can be psychologically impactful.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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