gazed
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In a story in “Ladies’ Lunch,” an old woman, disheveled after an outing, looks in a mirror and sees “what Diane Arbus might have seen. She gazed, appalled, and being appalled pricked her interest.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
He was congratulated by one colleague but then threw his headset on to a sideline bench at Levi's Stadium, sat down and gazed skywards.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
One Christmas night, as we drove him back to Fall River from the family party, he gazed out the car window at the festooned Joseph P. Kennedy before suddenly turning away and shaking his head.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
Books closed, three bored children gazed out the window, where one sheep-dotted meadow had begun to look very much like another.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
