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stargazing

verb

Definition of stargazing

present participle of stargaze

as in daydreaming

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Critical to healthy brain functioning is a dreaming state of unconsciousness called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep.

— Mike McRae September 17, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
That’s almost eight months of talking, worrying and dreaming about the Bears.

— Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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Not necessarily as little leaguers, but as bright-eyed youths fantasizing about one day wearing a big-league uniform, competing in major league stadiums and making their living by playing this children’s game as adults.

— Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026
View gallery - 3 images People have been fantasizing about humanoid robots for decades.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 19 July 2026

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The exterior might have many fans envisioning the famous taxi cab pulling up to the house, as depicted in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘s opening credits.

— Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
The Olmsted Brothers completed plans for it in 1906, envisioning its broad landscaped median as an extension of Baltimore’s park system connecting major green spaces.

— Lawrence Bell, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2026

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Boardman revealed spectacular detail in the nebula by imaging it with a set of narrowband filters over 16 hours and 18 minutes spread across five nights in late July.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2026
The agency is developing the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a future space mission with the goal of directly imaging Earth-like planets around nearby stars and identifying signs of life in the universe.

— Don Figer, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 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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