as in to glance (at)
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Crucial messages embedded where our unreliable narrator just glimpses them, struggling against herself to see.—
erin Khuê Ninh
June 17,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2025 -
But there’s also something wistful about it, as if its characters had glimpsed a possibility of freedom, unity, and happiness that, nearly 100 years later, is still out of reach.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 June 2025
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If a firework fails to ignite, don’t stand over the firework to inspect it or try to reignite it.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 July 2025
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The robot can manipulate parts, tend machines, inspect assets and even generate digital twins by capturing reality in high detail.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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Victor’s characters were magnetically awkward, their address was intimate and direct, and their creator scanned as a pretty weirdo with a tap on the discourse and on the possibilities of the contemporary internet.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
29 June 2025
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Researchers with the organization scanned 700 miles of Lake Michigan using sonar technology and used models to recreate the weather patterns that Flight 2501 would have encountered the night of the crash.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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“Peer (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peer%20%28at%29. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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