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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squinny
Noun
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England’s No 1, filling the huge gloves of Mary Earps following her retirement, was born with a severe squint.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
8 July 2025 -
Fuller suffered from a curvature of the spine, which made her slouch, and from myopia, which made her squint.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Anyone who has watched Pivetta stalk and stomp and gesticulate and glare and snap his glove to catch a throw from the catcher after a bad call and shout after an inning-ending out can easily surmise how much Pivetta’s intensity is part of his game.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Each railcar includes access to open-air vestibules, giving guests a chance to breathe in fresh air and snap postcard-perfect photos without obstruction or glare.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
31 July 2025
Noun
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In Competition Tender Claws’ Face Jumping, uses eye-tracking on the Meta Quest Pro to let participants swap perspectives with what looked like ghosts, by locking gazes with them.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Others are slamming the campaign for catering to the male gaze and taking inspiration from Brooke Shields' controversial 1980 denim campaign.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The deep fields were Hubble's most intense stares into the universe, revealing the faintest galaxies at the highest redshifts that Hubble could see, galaxies that existed over 13 billion years ago and whose light has been traveling for all that time.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Most of the viral skits portray the stare in customer service interactions, where a Gen Z cashier or customer responds with a blank, wordless stare where small talk would usually fill the void, sometimes as a result of a senseless questions.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
16 July 2025
Noun
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At the wedding, all of the couple’s guests morph into Sheeran, who leers at the horrified actor.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
7 Aug. 2025
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Male passersby leer at female guests roaming the streets around the hotel.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This summer’s big trip to Greece, for example, was preceded by a two-day escape to Venice, Italy, so the kids could get a quick taste of the tiramisu and squid ink pasta, as well as gape at the stunning canals and Venetian masks.—
Navdeep Singh Dhillon,
Parents,
29 July 2025
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Many bird species young have this gape so the parents can more easily direct food into their mouths.—
Sheryl De Vore,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
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“Squinny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squinny. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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