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oeillades

noun

plural of oeillade
as in stimes

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  1. glances
  2. glimpses
  3. peeks
  4. peeps
Noun
  • Continue reading … -- POLITICS TELLING SILENCE — Socialist mayor's awkward response scrutinized after police chief's nervous glances.
    — , FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • At first Tassie merely goes through the motions, turning up and pretty much dozing off her hangovers while her charges shoot her disapproving glances.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of glances
Noun
  • Five or so years ago, Amrit Singh kept catching glimpses of something that looked like home.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
  • This terror grows familiar but not stale; the reader is allowed to live within it almost calmly and thus catch glimpses of other forces in the darkness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of glimpses
Noun
  • For years, my SiriusXM show has offered only brief video peeks.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
  • After going public in 2021, the two have become one of Hollywood’s sweetest duos, offering plenty of support to one another for their respective projects (see Challengers, for example) and even giving us peeks at their love life behind-the-scenes.
    — Christopher Luu, InStyle, 31 July 2026
Definition of peeks
Noun
  • Congrats to the peeps that represent!
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
  • The unit is thick enough to be visible under the wearer’s T-shirt, say, and an air vent peeps out of the clothing.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Definition of peeps
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“Oeillades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oeillades. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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