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"Lo and behold, four weeks later my phone started to ping with the tracking device on the move to an address in Winstanley in Wigan," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Lo and behold, many are now slashing tuition for graduate programs in response to the new caps on student borrowing instituted by last year’s tax bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

In an era of parasocial pop stardom, the radical honesty of Cyrus’ approach — her clear-eyed appraisal of the relationship that binds an idol and her audience — was kind of a thrill to behold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Being able to listen to various attempts as the band and producer George Martin build “I’m Looking Through You” from the ground up, for example, is a wonder to behold.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Lo and behold, the mouth of a calm river at length came into view, with level shores unbroken, free from rock, shielded from wind— by far the best place he had found.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

“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

And in the making of “Sincerely,” which beholds her most revealing lyrics yet, authenticity was key.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

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 individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality—a genius which beholds itself.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

I got there on a balmy afternoon, beheld Chicken Boy’s beak gleaming in the sun, and knew my mission was complete.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

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

When we first beheld our most important Wolf-Rayet target, a star designated WR 104, on a computer monitor, it was a shimmering spiral that resembled a weirdly distorted Christmas bauble.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

Those who beheld it were bound by a vow of silence and they kept it so well that we know only stray bits of what was done.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Still, while beholding this inspiring mobilization, a basic question kept nagging at me: How do you even get tens of thousands of people in one Zoom call, let alone 100,000?

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024

“And I was beholding it in a Starbucks.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 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

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