stargazing

present participle of stargaze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazing
Verb
  • Altman and other top technologists, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and computer science professors Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, have been dreaming of constructing superintelligent systems for decades—as well as fearing them.
    Michael C. Horowitz, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The 25-year-old is also dreaming of something more personal.
    Essence, Essence, 23 Sep. 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
  • Next, leading multimodal AI teams invest in data-centric infrastructure that promotes collaboration and encourages visualizing model performance, not just measuring it.
    Brian Moore, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Caesar would have a tough time visualizing modern encryption algorithms.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ellen wonders, dejected and clearly envisioning her own future.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That preparation can include qualifying potential deal partners, envisioning a game plan to test buyer demand and preparing executive summaries to set the table for negotiations.
    Frank Williamson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One of them, apparently flying by night, had used its thermal-imaging camera to detect an enemy soldier in what looked like a field or forest.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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 7 Oct. 2025.

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