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Over the past two weeks, the mad scramble for upside exposure in the U.S. equities market has been a sight to behold, according to Nomura’s Charlie McElligott.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

"And lo and behold, here I am. So I'm very grateful."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

Societies across the world valued gold as a symbol of divinity, immortality, and authority; its rarity made it a special privilege to behold and possess.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Afterward her lord husband led his guests onto the lower terrace, so the visitors from the Yellow City might behold Meereen by night.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

Then he felt as the weary bewildered traveller, who in the thick forest beholds the last gleam of the descending sun.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck

At 18, he was performing in the North Shields pub where he also worked when the guy who’s now his manager walked in and beheld a star in the making.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

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

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

My skin prickled as Hamlet told how he, too, beheld the ghost of his dead father, armed from head to toe.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

This strange association of items creates the sensation of beholding the remains of a scientific experiment, seen through a magnifying lens.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

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

No words can tell the agitation of my spirits occasioned by merely the thought of throwing open that portal and beholding the secrets of the gloomy closet within.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson