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
Antonio Alcalá, an art director for the postal service's stamp development program, designed the stamps, which features a 1974, black-and-white Associated Press image of the boxer focusing with his gloves upright, peering into the lens.
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Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Jan. 2026
In a July 2025 post celebrating her birthday, Bündchen shared an adorable photo of her and her son peering onto a waterfall together.
—Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
The Rooms Clad in rich wood and walls of glass, my private villa featured an oversized bed, peering out onto a tranquility pond beyond a private deck.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
Last year, Winteractive featured giant pink inflatable people peering into office buildings and restaurant windows downtown.
—Neal Riley, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Page 390, to be specific, and the cartoon that shows two players peering nervously into the manager’s office.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
And there at ringside, his good eye peering through his Rolleiflex, was Schiller.
—David Margolick, Air Mail, 3 Jan. 2026
Mamdani inspires supporters in freezing cold Temperatures in Manhattan, even with sun peering between buildings, hovered in the 20s.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
Or by peering too hard into the future.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025
Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Jan. 2026
In a July 2025 post celebrating her birthday, Bündchen shared an adorable photo of her and her son peering onto a waterfall together.
—Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
The Rooms Clad in rich wood and walls of glass, my private villa featured an oversized bed, peering out onto a tranquility pond beyond a private deck.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
Last year, Winteractive featured giant pink inflatable people peering into office buildings and restaurant windows downtown.
—Neal Riley, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Page 390, to be specific, and the cartoon that shows two players peering nervously into the manager’s office.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
And there at ringside, his good eye peering through his Rolleiflex, was Schiller.
—David Margolick, Air Mail, 3 Jan. 2026
Mamdani inspires supporters in freezing cold Temperatures in Manhattan, even with sun peering between buildings, hovered in the 20s.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
Or by peering too hard into the future.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peering
Verb
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Below-average play is often staring you right in the face while catastrophe lurks around the corner.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The face in question, below, involves Sherman staring with her mouth agape.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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If star-gazing and vintage glamping sound dreamy, head to Camp Kettlewood.—
Sarah Miller,
Midwest Living,
13 Jan. 2026
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By day, visitors can hike, cycle, and view ancient petroglyphs left behind by the area's Indigenous Northern Paiute people, before spending the night gazing up at the twinkling canopy.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Here, astronomers are gawking at a radio signal that appears crudely on the screen like a crooked game of Pong but turns out to be a line of data repeated every 78 seconds from 600 light-years away.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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But the cringe-comedy antics of the original NBC series landed far better in Season 3 than in Season 1, once audiences began to truly love the characters instead of just gawking at them.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Peering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peering. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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