squint

If you squint and look at him one way, he seems like a moderate, but look at him from another angle, and he seems super progressive.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Others may just pick one of 11 nations with red home kits, squint their eyes and try and pretend it's actually Harry Wilson scoring rather than Switzerland.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Maybe you need to squint to see it right now, but after I give you this egg “biscuit” recipe, you’ll be running to the kitchen and that image will become much clearer.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

“If you squint, you could tell yourself that story in the data,” said Syverson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

I squint at the heart, thinking about that fateful last day.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

From her home deep in Upper Coquetdale, Sam Wood squints into the sun as she looks up the narrow silvery road which winds up the valley where many farming families have lived for generations.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

But such squints are a poor substitute for certainty; greater clarity may come from JWST’s measurement of how much iron the nebula holds.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023

Farrell squints so hard at times his bushy eyebrows form a barrier on his forehead as if he's trying to keep the world or at least his dark thoughts out of his head.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2023

She squints her eyes, trying to find her young self in the pictures.

From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2023

She squints her glittering silver eyelids at me.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

My head was tilted at an angle that brought the odometer into view, so I squinted: It was about to hit a half-million.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Dr. Laurie Margolies, the chief of breast imaging at the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai, has spent nearly four decades reading mammograms, starting back when radiologists squinted at film on light boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Social platforms, particularly X, were fled or ignored; political headlines squinted at and passed over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

Powell squinted his eyes and shook his head, his mind still racing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

Nhamo squinted at the market area in front of the trading post.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

He’s not afraid of being loathed, squinting his eyes until they’re unreadable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Carlson is squinting as he asks his questions in a way that sounds naive and lets Huckabee fill the space.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

But once you have accepted the limitations and frustrations, the experience will justify squinting your eyes and straining your neck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Outside, a woman called Pat from Manchester was squinting at the sun and gathering her thoughts.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025

The merchants there were always squinting at the desert air.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri