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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stare down
Verb
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Head to that same site to peruse our full calendar of events.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Mar. 2026 -
Fill up on gas and peruse a staggering menu of over 700 variations of fizzy pop, including weird and wonderful flavors such as teriyaki beef jerky soda.—
Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Around the same time, researchers at Johns Hopkins gave volunteers psilocybin, the active component in hallucinogenic mushrooms, to study its psychological effects.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Recovered in 2015, the ship was identified and studied through the Slave Wrecks Project, an international network of institutions that confirmed it was associated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Stare down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stare%20down. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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