squint
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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
You can’t squint past the distracting lens flares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
As for a sleeper game, if I squint hard enough, I can see a world where Scotland vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It takes great courage to look into the past with clear eyes, especially when what you’ll see is bound to remain hazy, forcing you to squint and carve out whatever truth you can from it.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
I squint at him—it’s not like I told him my plans.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
She squints her eyes, trying to find her young self in the pictures.
From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2023
In a frost-encrusted park in the east of Amsterdam, poet and equal rights activist Quinsy Gario squints in the afternoon sun.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2022
The squints, frowns and chair shifts don't mislead, although the production's bombardment of cable news-style chyrons either gleefully do or say the quiet part out loud.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
She looks up and squints at the words.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
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
Yet, as he squinted to read the small print on jars of Skippy sitting on the same shelf, the 68-year old made a more disappointing discovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
He looked at me quizzically and squinted: “Isn’t that the guy who wrote ‘L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
Powell squinted his eyes and shook his head, his mind still racing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
Jonah stopped in the street and squinted at him stupidly.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
“Constant squinting, reduced blinking and rubbing the eyes due to eyestrain can accelerate laxity and puffiness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
"She read the sign. She was squinting to see it. She laughed."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
I’d follow a recipe to the letter and still end up squinting at the oven door, trying to gauge whether I’d accidentally created something leaden or gummy or wrong.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
He stared at them, squinting, their words blending as precisely as a well-rehearsed choir.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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