as in to gaze
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband
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as in gaze
a fixed intent look
caught the child's wide-eyed stare on film
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Recent Examples of stare
James Fallon, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
When you're stuck staring at a blank page, your brain fills the space with doubt.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2025
While your dog may look at you with a relaxed and happy demeanor, the dog that looks at a person or another dog with a direct and hard stare is potentially a threat.
—Dawn Kovell, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
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Verb
The photographer was all ready not to miss anything — and just then the directrice of the salon walked over, stared right into the lens of the camera and drew the curtains.
—James Fallon, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
When you're stuck staring at a blank page, your brain fills the space with doubt.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
Back then, Mann attracted stares, questions, suspicion, and sometimes hostility.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2025
While your dog may look at you with a relaxed and happy demeanor, the dog that looks at a person or another dog with a direct and hard stare is potentially a threat.
—Dawn Kovell, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
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By removing color, the focus shifts to texture, light, gesture, and gaze — emphasizing the nuances of connection and the multiplicity of what love can look like beyond normative, romanticized ideals.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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After releasing the baseball, Luis Garcia gazed toward the first-base dugout.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 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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Some viewers even took to hate-watching the show, tuning in every week just to gawk at the latest episodes’ cringeworthy moments.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Stare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stare. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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