gawk
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Comedian Daniel Tosh even parlayed a desire to gawk at the web’s inept and unaware into a vicious update of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” that aired on Comedy Central for years.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026
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.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025
Some tourists are just people on vacation there to gawk, while others are influencers there for content.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025
Biopics should not be a lookalike contest, where audiences gawk at the screen, inspecting the performance with opera binoculars to see just how closely an actor can come to mirroring their real-life subject.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2024
He jumped to his feet, put his hand on the wall to steady himself as he craned his neck to gawk toward the heavens.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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