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Recent Examples of look on
Fans dressed as popes look on during the third inning of a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025.
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Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Jack Lang’s eulogy — beginning with a haunting photo (top) of Xana, waving a flag on a deserted pitch with her father looking on after his Barcelona side’s 2015 Champions League final victory — will do a good job of moving you to tears.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Cellphone video showed one of the white cops, Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes while the other officers looked on.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
Peter, looking on, suddenly seems to remember his wife just may be a human being.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 23 May 2025
As her teammates and Royals players looked on, visibly shaken, King received treatment from trainers before she was stretchered off the field.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 14 May 2025
Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Jack Lang’s eulogy — beginning with a haunting photo (top) of Xana, waving a flag on a deserted pitch with her father looking on after his Barcelona side’s 2015 Champions League final victory — will do a good job of moving you to tears.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Cellphone video showed one of the white cops, Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes while the other officers looked on.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
Peter, looking on, suddenly seems to remember his wife just may be a human being.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 23 May 2025
As her teammates and Royals players looked on, visibly shaken, King received treatment from trainers before she was stretchered off the field.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 14 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for look on
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Hill is on a Hall of Fame trajectory, and looked first ballot-worthy until last season, when his antics, side babies, lawsuits and now a divorce finally overshadowed underwhelming play.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
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Wanting to feel that energy and looking for a break from the monotony of his rehab program in Arizona, Steele is planning to make regular visits to Wrigley Field to support his teammates and check in with the club’s staff.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Meanwhile, Cauley was staring at a long road to recovery.—
Kendall Capps,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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Things began to get chippy in the bottom half of the fifth after OSU’s Trent Caraway stared Sloan down after drawing a two-out walk.—
Alyssa Cooper,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 May 2025
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Kulture even holds her little one in her arms, while Cardi gazes at her two girls.—
Emma Aerin Becker,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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But colleges and schools, too, are gazing in the mirror: What’s the point—the medium, more precisely—of education nowadays amidst tech upheaval?—
Michael Serazio,
Time,
28 May 2025
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This was suspected in the 1980s, and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has peered deep into the cores of galaxies all across the sky, confirmed it.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 May 2025
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Stargaze in the Abu Dhabi desert To peer into the skies in the UAE’s most impressive natural landscape, head to Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara in Abu Dhabi’s Liwa region, a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Abu Dhabi city.—
Natasha Amar,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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As the Los Angeles Lakers get ready to fully embrace the offseason, the roster has one big glaring need.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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When Chuan buys Jay a shirt, the glaring class difference between the boys is unspoken: Jay, whose father is a mathematics professor, lives in the capital and is presumed to have a middle-class future that will include a college degree and a white-collar job.—
Ilana Masad,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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The Giants don’t have a big, gaping hole in their late-inning game plans.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The wars in Ukraine and Gaza continue to fester like gaping wounds.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2025
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The short clip has been viewed more than 20 million times to date, drawing in more than 3.7 million likes from delighted viewers.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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Streaming viewing minutes came to 63.4 billion in the latest year, compared with 55.9 billion in 2023.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025
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“Look on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look%20on. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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