stargazed

past tense of stargaze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazed
Verb
  • The Spanish driver secured the sticker for Sunday's race and ended up finishing on the podium, a feat that Sainz could only have dreamed about early in the season.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Her husband always dreamed of opening a sports center youth in Puerto Rico, so in 1976, spearheaded by Vera, the Ciudad Deportiva Roberto Clemente (Roberto Clemente Sports City) was established, according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those who only fantasized about positive outcomes showed lower systolic blood pressure than those who visualized success and then thought through potential obstacles and backup plans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Two batters later, Kiner-Falefa visualized redemption.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those who only fantasized about positive outcomes showed lower systolic blood pressure than those who visualized success and then thought through potential obstacles and backup plans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • By the late 2010s, the precursors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E were spluttering to life, making real the future that the Army had envisioned in World War II.
    Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
  • No one in the Ravens organization envisioned such a start.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those Penguins teams were either contenders or fancied themselves as contenders for a decade.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Some have fancied themselves an island chanteuse (Wanda Shirk on Palau).
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Christopher Smith does this in a physical way, going from one dimension to another that’s as different from his own life as can possibly be imagined.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
  • While Amon’s keynote address in Maui imagined a future with numerous AI agents working on-device, the current reality is more modest.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The show featured over 65 car brands, including new, modified, and rare hyper cars.
    Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The straighter hair revealed that Moore’s bangs featured longer, face-framing pieces that grazed her jawline.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 26 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 1 Oct. 2025.

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