gawk
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Redick said he was simply poking his head into the situation the way people might turn their heads to gawk at commotion in a bar.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Comedian Daniel Tosh even parlayed a desire to gawk at the web’s inept and unaware into a vicious update of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” that aired on Comedy Central for years.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026
The explosion happens in slow motion, allowing viewers to gawk at all of DeYoung’s shrewdly constructed, cinematic shrapnel.
From Salon • May 12, 2025
Nearly 100 reporters still showed up to gawk at their greatness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025
He’d walk home carrying a huge turtle under his arm the way you carry a schoolbook, and me and Dee-Dee would gawk.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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