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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looks on
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Haiti already faced an uphill climb to get back into this game trailing 2-0, but now their opportunity to draw a point looks positively grim.
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Women are required to wear a headpiece in almost all the enclosures — though what exactly that looks like, depends on the class of ticket.
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Her shocked caregiver stares at her uncomprehendingly.
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The first photo of the two-slide carousel shows Prince Harry holding Lilibet in his arms while Meghan, her arm on her husband, stares lovingly at her daughter.
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The sun sets over the bay of Cassis, a charming seaside resort near Marseille, as a young woman gazes toward the horizon.
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One character gazes out and tries to make a decision.
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That's allowed Micron and peers SK Hynix and Samsung to hike prices.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“Looks on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looks%20on. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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