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present tense third-person singular of stare

stares

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noun

plural of stare

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Recent Examples of stares
Verb
In the picture, Duggar holds her son, who wears a gray onesie and stares into the camera. Hannah Sacks, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Thus, Botticelli’s Jesus, who stares at the fruit in deep thought, perhaps prophesies his own death and return, as opposed to the child in the Dreyfus Madonna, who proudly shows the unity of his church to his mother. Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025 What could have been a really terrifying and unsettling scene, especially as the dead-eyed sheep stares ominously back at them, becomes just another goofy moment. Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Its horn curves above its head like a long crescent moon, and below it a minute eye—no bigger than perhaps a millimetre or two—stares dead ahead. Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025 However, if someone stares at a screen too long and isn't regularly blinking, their eyes are not stimulating the system that makes tears. Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025 During their final exchange in the interrogation room, Gudsen stares at Michelle. Jp Mangalindan, Time, 15 Aug. 2025 And the crowd stares at the Beatles the same way. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
Resilience and Renewal Despite stares from strangers, Amber embraced her bald head. Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025 The pair shared curious stares and wagged tails throughout the three-hour journey, delighting those seated nearby. Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025 Nowhere on that list is getting lost, hurting myself in another country or getting racist stares. Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 20 Aug. 2025 Elementary school brought stares and whispers. Jordan Greene, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025 Back then, Mann attracted stares, questions, suspicion, and sometimes hostility. IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2025 Even the concept of moving somewhere warm is met with suspicious stares. Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2025 Appearing in all but eight of the series’ 113 episodes, Miyahara rarely spoke, his character most often providing silent, deadpan stares as punctuation to comic or outlandish scenes. Greg Evans, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stares
Verb
  • Charles gets boxed in by the camera, which gazes up at Anniston with near reverence.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Four of the men look at the camera, one gazes at the distant beach, another scratches his head, and the last, the uber-famous Frank Gehry, studies the sand at his feet.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The director noticed that the exhausted Sheen couldn't keep his eyes open even when cameras were rolling.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Nolthenius hopes that more astronomers – professionals and amateurs – will turn their eyes to the skies to observe Quaoar's occultations.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Stares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stares. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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