stargazing

present participle of stargaze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazing
Verb
  • Your ultimate glow-up will consist of you embracing your magic, dreaming bigger and not being afraid to take risks.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Photo of young thoughtful academic school boy touch cheek curiosity dreaming bored enjoy books sitting floor home background.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After learning her daughter will not return to Chile, however, she is forced to stop fantasizing about others’ lives and find comfort in unexpected places.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
  • For something completely different, some investors have been picking up value stocks rather than fantasizing about the possibilities of Silicon Valley’s dream world.
    John Navin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Besides treating anxiety, performance counseling can include efforts to increase concentration and confidence, and visualizing success.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The study authors thought the results were interesting result because these careers involve visualizing real-world maps.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • However, the Ulrich plan largely predicted it right, envisioning a district that would absorb all of California’s northern state line with Oregon, stretching to Nevada.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, Cora is encouraging his young star to start envisioning returning in the ALCS.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Top of the National Academies' Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey is a new space telescope that is capable of imaging Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • For the next 25 months, the SPHEREx observatory will orbit Earth more than 11,000 times while surveying and imaging the surrounding sky.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And there was a smattering of other items, which the visitor, fancying himself an amateur academic archeologist, thought worth noting.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Stargazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stargazing. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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