LOOKS (ON OR UPON) Synonyms: 20 Similar Words

looks (on or upon)

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present tense third-person singular of look (on or upon)

as in considers

to think of in a particular way you could call the comment mean-spirited, but I do not look on it that way at all

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Howell considers lighting one of the most important and underutilized layers.

— Oset Babür-Winter, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2026
France considers withdrawing Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky’s refugee status.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of considers

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Given today’s fraught new era of great-power competition, where would be the most strategically useful birthplace for a figure Beijing regards as a threat?

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
Instead, the letter emphasizes what the league regards as an insufficient application for entry.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 June 2026

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Cristobal calls change ‘a positive step’ This new process would have benefited Miami greatly last year when determining who would make the conference championship.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
These 126 spacecraft will be part of a larger LEO network that the SDA calls the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 July 2026

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Losing High Plains is a significant blow to Colorado’s comedy scene, which still counts top-notch clubs such as Comedy Works, a location of The Improv chain, and independent improv and stand-up havens such as Rise Comedy.

— John Wenzel, Denver Post, 16 July 2026
The Polystyrene Recycling Alliance, a body created last year that counts 17 companies as members, has been working to forestall bans and ensure the material is treated as recyclable under new state packaging laws.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 July 2026

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Honeywell also views the partnership as validation of Anthem’s modular cockpit architecture.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
Censorship occurs when the government tries to revoke the green cards of people whose views its biggest donors would prefer not to hear.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026

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