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Clad in a plain white shirt, Jim Goodnight, billionaire cofounder and CEO of analytics firm SAS, eases into a leather rolling chair in a Cary, North Carolina, meeting room that looks less like a corner office than a geology exhibit.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026 -
What the traffic ticket scam text looks like At first, the message seems convincing.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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Use climbing plants as a privacy screen If your balcony stares directly at a neighbor’s window or a busy street, climbing plants are the gentlest fix.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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Michael stares at his image without showing much interest.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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And Sylvie, who still gazes with utmost tenderness at a black-and-white photograph, taken during her time abroad, of a nameless wailing Russian child, has permanently abandoned her own daughter by refusing to visit her.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Her new perspective gazes at us directly, compelling us to meet her eye.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 May 2026
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Someone dressed in a big blue bear costume — an homage to the 40-foot ursine behemoth who peers into the Colorado Convention Center along 14th Street in downtown Denver — has already been getting a lot of attention from attendees, the party chair said.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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Reid Wiseman peers out the window of the Orion spacecraft.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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My eleven-year-old self rolls her eyes, glares at my thirty-six-year-old body, and silently calls me fat.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Straitjacketed inside the inescapable present, Pearl gapes up to discover that her husband, Walker, has found her; Walker was always going to find her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Looks on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looks%20on. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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