behold

That is where the heart of this World Cup was and the support for their team was a joy to behold.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

A living being is also endowed with theoretical knowledge—as in the Greek term theorein, meaning to behold, receive and contemplate ultimate reality as beauty, gift and mystery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

The Hutchinson Himalayas are a site to behold — a mile-long museum of municipal neglect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

The charge into chips by investors has been something to behold.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

I know it sounds strange, but a praying Dussel is a terrible sight to behold.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

In the aria, Sara, Duchess of Nottingham, is hiding her tears from everyone but the audience as she beholds in the tragic tale of the Fair Rosamund a reflection of her own lovelorn grief.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2021

Two-thirds into “Drifts” the narrator realizes she is pregnant, and as she beholds her “exquisitely tender and changing body” her diction stoops slightly into the hackneyed.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2020

The reason gazes immediately on the eternal realities, by virtue of what was called "intellectual intuition," which beholds both subject and object as united in a single thought.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

At least, it did until very recently, when we fully beheld the wretched manifestations of Meta’s desperate A.I. push.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2025

She hiked uphill from her riverside worksite and beheld a vista of sheer mountain slopes unbroken by rivers or streams.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

Howsare argues that what Europeans beheld was the opposite of paradise — in fact “a landscape in crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

It remains firmly planted in our hearts, just as it was in the hearts of the shepherds when they first beheld the baby in the manger.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

She unfolded it and beheld the words It’s your fault.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

There is a particular thrill in beholding a portrait as old and as lifelike as Isidora’s, just over a foot in height and 6 inches wide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

These products have been verified compliant with modern standards for beholding eclipses.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2024

Standing in one of these bathrooms you realize that you are beholding a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

As with anything, not every facet of “NewsRadio” has aged gracefully, but beholding Phil Hartman in his prime is reason enough to visit or revisit WNYX.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Sunshine, in fact, bathed the entire afghan, and the play of warm, brilliant light in the pale-blue wool was in itself well worth beholding.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger