stargazed

Definition of stargazednext
past tense of stargaze
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Verb
  • Max is everything Inger has ever dreamed of – travelled and irresistibly charming.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • Sedelmaier originally had dreamed of a career as a cartoonist.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • Researcher Gabriele Oettingen studied this with students who visualized acing their exams.
    Terry Ward, CNN Money, 4 May 2026
  • Every vessel was visualized clearly.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • For years the sisters had fantasized, half-seriously, about having their own YouTube channel.
    Scot Paltrow, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The new sound became a global fad, even in the locales that exotica artists fantasized about.
    H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • This is a rendering of the Forge Atlanta project, which is envisioned for a 10-acre site between downtown Atlanta and Castleberry Hill.
    Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 11 May 2026
  • The second and third deliveries are envisioned in 2038 and 2039, with the fourth and fifth ships expected in 2041 and 2043.
    Tony Capaccio, Fortune, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • The place first opened 93 years ago when Jack Fry, a guy who fancied boxing, gambling and horse racing, opened a tavern with his wife, Flossie.
    USA TODAY Network, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Dudley will be well-fancied to be the highest-scoring rookie in NWSL 2026.
    Theo Lloyd-Hughes, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Writing a novel forces confrontation — with uncertainty, with imperfection, with the uncomfortable gap between what was imagined and what exists on the page.
    JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
  • But then Dwyer imagined a baroque process that could allow one avalanche to set off another, and another, and another, all right on top of each other.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • The Pinstripe Bowl between Penn State and Clemson featured teams that opened the year with national championship aspirations but combined for 13 regular-season victories.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • All listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • That number is quite low, Topaz and others said, but more worrisome is the fact that hallucinated citations are becoming more common.
    Anil Oza, STAT, 7 May 2026
  • Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Stargazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stargazed. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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