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Gay comedian Sam Oh peered over to his roastee, Julian Stern, and prepared his first stream of jabs at his straight counterpart.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Out back, he peered over the bluff, an 80-foot drop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Investigating the smell, she ventured about 50 feet off the dirt road, toward heavy woods, where she peered into a tree-lined creek bed.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Nearby, tourists on another bridge, partly destroyed by US bombs during the Korean War, posed for photographs and peered through binoculars at the North Korean city of Sinuiju on the opposite shore.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
She gazed at Deadwood with dreamlike curiosity, unlike most people, who peered at Clare’s tangled woods with dread, or disgust, or, worst of all, as if it were something they could own.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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