PEER (AT) Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

peer (at)

verb

Definition of peer (at)

as in to glance (at)

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These treks stretch your endurance, quiet your head and drop you into places most travelers only glimpse from an airplane window.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
Foreign Tongues also finds the Glimmer Twins glimpsing the apocalypse once again.

— David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026

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By analyzing these correlations, researchers can certify that a system is genuinely quantum without opening it up and inspecting its hardware.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
Among the most noteworthy legislation passed that year was Assembly Bill 103, which granted the California Department of Justice oversight authority to regularly inspect and report on the conditions of facilities operating in the state.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

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That’s what startup Casana is betting will be the next billion-dollar opportunity with its smart toilet seats, which have sensors that can scan vitals like blood pressure, heart rate and blood oxygen, and then connect the results to a phone app.

— Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
And for all the whinging about the cast’s racial diversity, the actor who in some ways reads least as an ancient Greek is Matt Damon, whose Odysseus scans as American, which is almost certainly the point.

— Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026

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