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stargazing

verb

Definition of stargazing

present participle of stargaze

as in daydreaming

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Early voting turnout has Democrats dreaming big about the General Assembly, which Republicans have controlled for more than a decade.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2026
For now, the evolutionary history of dreaming remains tantalizingly unfinished.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026

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Some of Auni’s functions—such as reading sales statements, analyzing data, and visualizing results—can happen offline on low-cost phones, without making cloud queries.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2026
Throughout the early 1960s, under the direction of Noyes, IBM was busily visualizing the coming information age, seeking to give computers a cultural form that would be legible to the public.

— Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

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Akalay also considers young people when envisioning his target audience.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
In early 1976, Sidney Gibson tried at least twice to make the balloon a centerpiece of a small summer fair, envisioning thousands of people coming to marvel at and ride in the balloon.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026

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Wiring the Teensy to the magnetic-imaging tile was trivial, only complicated by the fact that one side of the board has a silk-screen error that misidentifies the SPI connections (SparkFun says this will be fixed in future runs of the board).

— Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2026
Successfully imaging a shooting star takes a combination of skill, luck and patience.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026

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At the lower end of the survey’s spectrum and considerably more balanced sits marijuana regulation, with only 31% of respondents considering the topic to be important for people to understand, and 23% of respondents fancying themselves as highly informed on the matter.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 7 June 2026
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

star (in)

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