look away
Example Sentences
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Her relationship with the camera remains unparalleled — when she is in frame, it is almost impossible to look away.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
The TV Dinner was an early, if unintended, step toward our current world in which unblinking people can’t look away from the screens they carry everywhere, oblivious to what is going on around them.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
But the answer to a risk you can’t see clearly is not to look away.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
Pitchford asks whether either promise still has real force when the record is messy, the procedure rushed, and the law of review designed to look away.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Some of us look away when bad things happen.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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