beheld
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The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Its concerns and desires are our 21st century concerns and desires, with Hildegard beheld as a proto-feminist icon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
She hiked uphill from her riverside worksite and beheld a vista of sheer mountain slopes unbroken by rivers or streams.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
When we first beheld our most important Wolf-Rayet target, a star designated WR 104, on a computer monitor, it was a shimmering spiral that resembled a weirdly distorted Christmas bauble.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023
As if roused by a sudden bell, Frodo rose quickly, and stood up and looked away southwards; but when his eyes beheld the Mountain and the desert he quailed again.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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