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glimpsed

verb as in look briefly

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In early summer, I glimpsed a portrait of Outterbridge hanging in an exhibition I was writing about — his eyes staring, it seemed, through me.

The last time she saw him was when, whilst she stood outside, she glimpsed him through the window of his care home a few days before he passed away.

From BBC

Haas intentionally zeroed in on L.A.’s eclectic neighborhoods in the scene locators glimpsed throughout the series, which let viewers know what part of town the action is taking place.

But the inexorable facts of mortality are glimpsed in the way the animals are depicted onstage.

They come from a glittering hoard of nearly 1,800 pearls, rubies, topaz, sapphires, and patterned gold sheets, first glimpsed deep inside a brick chamber near the Buddha's birthplace in present-day Uttar Pradesh in India.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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