gaze
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To visit “Collection and Translation” at the Fralin is to look with a lover’s gaze, to see in the world of southern France a promise and a future for a new nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Under the gaze of actress Rosario Dawson, pieces by designer Ermanno Daelli took on a rock and sexy edge, while remaining adaptable to many summer outfits.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
"There have been several films and documentaries made about Nagaland," he says, "but these sort of films tend to follow the gaze of the explorer rather than the subject."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
The world fell into slow motion as Clare’s gaze lifted, his undead heart gripping with horror.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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At one point in the clip, the white pup gazes adoringly at the NFL star before hopping onto a couch to snuggle beside him while Kelce lovingly pets the pooch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Her fingers constantly twist a tissue as she tries to maintain her composure and she gazes into the distance as tears well up behind her glasses.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Hours before the May 1960 opening of Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House, Otto Frank gazes at the empty annex where his family and four other Jews hid from the Nazis for more than two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2025
There’s a tendency to mark such days of observance with long gazes at Black suffering.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2021
The doctor gazes upon it for a moment and then climbs up, clutching his black bag primly in front of him.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Kaur appeared visibly upset in the dock as the verdict was read out, while Digwa showed little emotion and gazed out into the courtroom.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
When he gazed at the camera as Pennywise the clown, the resulting alert conveyed no concern about the menacing visage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
An American flag waved in the background while various figures gazed up at the president in reverence.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
On a recent Monday afternoon in a small Mexican diner, not far from the 710 Freeway in East Los Angeles, Gricel Gonzalez, 57, gazed out the window at the avenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
A boy paused beside me and gazed down at my phone just in time to see the screen turn black.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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And so at the Humanoid Games, when one robot sprinter reacted to the starting gun by sitting down, then lying on its back and gazing at the sky, viewers saw a fellow casualty of burnout.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
The youngest son in a hodgepodge home, he wrote this memoir in 1993, gazing over his family’s 20th-century history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I’m a regular person, like you,” Hal says, gazing directly through the fourth wall at the tiny people he assumes are worshipping him from afar.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Daily Telegraph calls the solar eclipse "the greatest show on Earth", picturing a crowd in Birmingham gazing at the phenomenon along with millions across the UK and Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
They’re all gazing up at a gigantic beige tarp that’s been duct-taped to the wall.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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