stargazed

past tense of stargaze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazed
Verb
  • Caudill once dreamed of playing college basketball.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The first National Conservatism conferences drew students and intellectuals who felt marginalized by the Republican Party and dreamed about taking power.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Schrödinger hoped that the wave might literally describe an electron smeared out in space — a real object that could be visualized — but Born quickly realized that this dream was too simple to be true.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Miranda collborates with Actias wearing bespoke gloves designed in his Plymouth lab that translate hand gestures into control parameters to constantly change sounds by manipulating qubits, visualized on screen as a sphere.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • According to psychiatrist interviews conducted with his younger sister, Allyn, Kemper cut the hands off of her doll, beheaded and dismembered the family cat, and fantasized about executions and gas chambers.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Sure, Timothy stole a gun and fantasized about killing his wife and son, but the gun is gone.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Founders envisioned a Nation in which religious voices and views are integral to a vibrant public square and human flourishing and in which religious people and institutions are free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or hostility from the Government.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Wharton envisioned gardens as architectural compositions just like houses and structures, in a series of outdoor rooms that elegantly co-exist with the natural landscape.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wales' women went into the World Cup with a higher ranking than Scotland but have now dropped to 10th and are underdogs against Canada, needing victory to save their tournament as Scotland are fancied to beat outsiders Fiji in Saturday's second game at the Salford Community Stadium.
    Mark Gleeson, Reuters, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Trump's first term was plagued by internal sabotage from bureaucrats and agency officers who fancied themselves a coequal branch of government.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Butler never imagined Zimmerer – a typically non-spontaneous person – would drop everything to book a flight and travel more than 1,500 miles from Nebraska to be there.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Longo is known for his photorealistic paintings and drawings, but many of his works are an amalgamation of images real, imagined, and tweaked.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Miami event featured teen’s work For Zaldivar, this weekend’s historic sainthood ceremony strikes a personal chord.
    Lauren Costantino September 6, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • David Alaba is experienced playing in midfield and featured there in the pre-season friendlies against Leganes (behind closed doors) and WSG Tirol, but at age 33, his role in Alonso’s group is not at all clear for this season.
    Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 5 Sep. 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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