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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looked on
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Greenberg tried his best to ignore an irritating ankle injury that had plagued him the last couple of weeks and grimaced under the hazy sunlight as the pitcher, probably 20 or more years his junior, stared him down.
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In La Guaira, Cristian Carreño stared at his charred apartment building tilting precariously to one side.
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Within days of using it, my skin felt softer, looked more hydrated, and even began healing itself again.
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Other rankings have looked at median incomes, which are often lower.
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Near 18th and Grand on the second double-decker Orange Bus during the mind-boggling Oranje Fanwalk on Thursday, KC2026 CEO Pam Kramer gazed back — and realized there somehow were as many people behind them as before them.
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En route from the airport, his mother gazed out of the window, apparently rapt by these strange surroundings.
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Syl’s daughter, GiGi, her first-born, peered through the living room window, which looked out onto their small front lawn.
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Science luminaries including Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble and Carl Sagan once peered through the vintage telescopes housed in the domed observatory towers.
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Locals complained tourist gawked at them or traipsed through their yards.
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Onlookers gawked from the balconies of nearby condo towers.
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Upon first glance of the architectural marvel that is the magnificent indoor-outdoor lobby, my mouth gaped open; on every return visit since, it's done the same.
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Inside the old asylum, plaster peeled from mottled walls and holes gaped in the ceiling.
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If the first eight steps, rising amid the site’s oak and maple trees, can be viewed as his birth and boyhood in the state, those at the summit reflect his later years of anguish and trial.
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Critics have viewed that policy shift as a aggressive push toward assimilation.
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Whether the threat from data centers is real or perceived, communities and stakeholders are waking up and beginning to assign value to a resource that had previously been treated as free.
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Nolan’s movies are often perceived as having problems with female characters being flat compared with the male characters.
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“Looked on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looked%20on. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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