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Recent Examples of look over
Return your head to the center, then turn your head to look over your left shoulder.
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Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 16 June 2025
Advertisement After Homan expressed frustration that the bill wasn’t sailing through Congress and returned to his front row seat, Trump looked over at Homan and smiled.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 26 June 2025
Archaeologists began working on the site looking over the town of Alès in February, and have now revealed the discoveries made there, according to a June 24 news release from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
As the president appeals, interest accrues—and the monitor keeps looking over his shoulder.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
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Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 16 June 2025
Advertisement After Homan expressed frustration that the bill wasn’t sailing through Congress and returned to his front row seat, Trump looked over at Homan and smiled.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 26 June 2025
Archaeologists began working on the site looking over the town of Alès in February, and have now revealed the discoveries made there, according to a June 24 news release from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
As the president appeals, interest accrues—and the monitor keeps looking over his shoulder.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for look over
scan
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Victor’s characters were magnetically awkward, their address was intimate and direct, and their creator scanned as a pretty weirdo with a tap on the discourse and on the possibilities of the contemporary internet.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
29 June 2025
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Researchers with the organization scanned 700 miles of Lake Michigan using sonar technology and used models to recreate the weather patterns that Flight 2501 would have encountered the night of the crash.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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“Look over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look%20over. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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