PEERING Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

peering

verb

present participle of peer

as in staring

to look long and hard in wonder or surprise visitors seem mesmerized as they peer at the variety of marine life in the aquarium's huge tank

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Recent Examples of peering As grieving attendees lined up to pay respects to the children, one woman shut her eyes after peering at one of the children, Kayla, who wore a white dress, her fingernails carefully painted pink. —

Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 10 May 2026 Home-surveillance footage provided to the Miami Herald shows a masked man peering into cars in the area shortly before authorities were called. —

Sofia Saric may 6, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026 Surveillance video provided by police shows two men dressed in all black, wearing masks, walking through the complex and peering into parked cars. —

Abby Dodge, CBS News, 5 May 2026 The image of an officer peering into the empty driver’s seat of the offending vehicle may have been good for a chuckle, but other incidents have been no laughing matter. —

Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 And a visitor might be even more surprised by the flow, with an open dining area peering over the living room, and decks on the front and back of the house. —

Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Apr. 2026 Underwater suites with floor-to-ceiling windows peering directly into an aquarium with 65,000 animals furthers the oceanic theme, while a variety of dining and entertainment options ensure more than enough activity on land. —

Asa Canty, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2026 Watching the House chamber from the viewing gallery before the speech was like peering into a garden party from above. —

Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026 By peering through thick veils of gas and dust, radio astronomers have been able to watch young binary stars orbit around one another in the heart of star-forming clouds — and, in the process, have revealed the stars' masses. —

Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026

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So, sometimes silence and solitude is necessary, and just like sitting on a plane watching nothing, doing nothing, just staring blankly at … it's called raw-dogging a flight.

— Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
According to the criminal complaint in that case, a woman at a coffee shop drive-thru reported seeing a man, later identified as Trepanier, at the back of the building with his pants down and masturbating while staring at her.

— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 8 May 2026