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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looking over
scanning
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With the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, York then marshaled forces to create one single telescope that could map hundreds of millions of objects in the sky — a central telescope systematically scanning the sky, and then releasing massive quantities of data publicly available to any scientist.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026 -
Facial recognition tools have also become widely available to law enforcement agencies across the country, but there was a time when they were largely used as investigative tools, using photos of individual suspects rather than proactively scanning people in the field.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Looking over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looking%20over. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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