behold
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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
Both indoors and out, Porter proved that there was beauty where one was inclined to behold it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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
The charge into chips by investors has been something to behold.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
What a marvelous sight it was to behold Mr. Myles' furrowed black face inspecting his smooth-skinned young, just arrived in the world he'd shortly leave.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
“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
“Whenever there is no desire, one beholds the mystery,” Lao Tzu wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2020
Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2018
With ten thousand eyes he beholds the man who hates and deceives him.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max
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
He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
“The Times posed the question, ‘Will Swift ever voluntarily step away from the spotlight?’ as if beholding a woman in full flow and power invariably summoned the fantasy of her involuntary removal from the scene.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
These products have been verified compliant with modern standards for beholding eclipses.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2024
Allison meets Viktor when she returns and, upon beholding his true presentation, chastises herself for not realizing it all along.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2022
Defying the storm that threatened, the clouds that curtained the sun now pass, and we three survivors of a long-ago tragedy stand together in silence, beholding one another in the sun’s light.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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