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gawk

verb as in stare at in amazement

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The rest of the “tiny” people in the St. Francis High gym are gawking in awe at his 7-9 wingspan.

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One beautiful evening, a dozen people were gawking at the LAV-25 armored vehicles.

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Visitors strolling Hollywood Boulevard stopped to gawk at the gathering, which blocked two lanes of eastbound traffic in the busy tourist area.

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“We were also used to having protection; now anyone can just come in and gawk.”

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But whether spectators were there to pay their respects to someone they admired or to gawk at the cortège for another one of Hollywood’s dead blondes is its own question.

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