stargazed

past tense of stargaze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazed
Verb
  • The success of Marchita brought the kind of opportunities that Estrada — the daughter of luthiers from the verdant hills of Coatepec, Veracruz — had dreamed of just a few years earlier.
    Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The military campaign appeased his far-right coalition partners, who called to expand Israel’s assault on Gaza and dreamed of fully re-occupying the territory.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Johnson, who authored a paper in 2023 about the importance of building virtual cells, hopes that whatever scientists end up building will be capable of being visualized.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • One big advantage of this tool is that the mathematical operations describing the forces between particles can be visualized as diagrams.
    Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Who among us hasn’t fantasized in the shower about exacting elaborate revenge for petty upsets, or lain awake trying to reframe our humiliations as epic tales of triumph?
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • At times, Russell fantasized about applying to Sarah Lawrence and getting a college degree.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Indeed, a 2020 study found that meltwater trickling into Antarctica’s ice shelves could infiltrate cracks and force them open, a precursor to marine ice cliff instability that DeConto and colleagues envisioned.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Incorporating elements of the female figure in abstraction, Miró originally envisioned this piece as a small, table top sized figurine and not the massive bronze sculpture it would be come, according to an article by Christie’s.
    Sophia Arndt, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The 27-year-old would undoubtedly have fancied his chances of getting back on track against a beleaguered Fiorentina side, but looks set to play no part after withdrawing through injury just half an hour into the USMNT’s friendly against Australia on Tuesday.
    Jack Bantock, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Some have fancied themselves an island chanteuse (Wanda Shirk on Palau).
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That calls for a little extra creativity from its mom — and the movie’s narrator (Emilia Clarke) — who wriggles her mandibles and gets to work embellishing upon what Dahl imagined.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s mythographers have access to sources and tools that Casaubon could never have imagined—vast digital archives, instant machine translation, pattern-finding algorithms that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The gown's train featured a vaguely psychedelic ombre dip-dye pattern in shades of aubergine, sky blue, and lavender.
    Amy McCarthy, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Here is a look at key takeaways from chats with the people behind three films featured at LFF and their future plans.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Content must be authentic and showcase real expertise, not hallucinated knowledge.
    Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One health-care AI model confidently hallucinated a nonexistent body part.
    Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Stargazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stargazed. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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