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stargazing

verb

Definition of stargazing

present participle of stargaze

as in daydreaming

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Get a head start on your holiday shopping by reviewing my favorite finds from last year’s Quince Black Friday sale—and dreaming about this year’s possibilities.

— Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2026
Building knowledge beyond conversations Anthropic also explored whether dreaming could turn large document collections into interconnected knowledge bases.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026

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The accompanying music video, out now, finds Rodrigo cleaning up after a party at her boyfriend’s apartment (Ben Marshall) while fantasizing about meeting his family, which includes his mother, Nixon.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
Underneath that façade was a sociopathic white supremacist neo-Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.

— Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 16 Oct. 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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During the exercise, a thermal-imaging drone searched for simulated casualties.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
In addition to imaging the visible coronal light, the team will try to track the dispersal of superhot ions of iron into interplanetary space, which could give rare insights into the pattern of heat emanating from the corona.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 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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