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Recent Examples of leer
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
One in particular is a knockout, in which Skye sees the dancers from her show assembled in the doorway of her apartment with leering smiles.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Verb
Jonathan leered at her there, too, but that was that.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
One in particular is a knockout, in which Skye sees the dancers from her show assembled in the doorway of her apartment with leering smiles.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leer
Noun
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Juventus’ coach, Thiago Motta, wore a 1,000-yard stare in his post-match briefings, still stunned.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Jamie gives him a lethal stare and tells him to go away.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
4 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the difference between noticing women’s attractiveness and ogling them.—
Meg Bernhard Bruce Schoenfeld David Marchese Kwame Anthony Appiah Eric Kim Alex C. Park Helen Holmes John Hodgman,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The surfaces are hand rendered using a precise technique to achieve a light-dispersing effect that is at once understated and ogle worthy.—
Nancy Olson,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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There are also two inward-facing cameras that track the direction of the user's gaze, plus there are two inward-facing displays, one in front of each eye.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2025
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Children in the background looked hollow-eyed and lost, unable to meet her gaze.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Congressional Republicans are eyeing dozens of Biden administration regulations to roll back once President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term on Monday.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
18 Jan. 2025
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But some investors have been eyeing it, including Trump's former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and billionaire businessman Frank McCourt.—
MARK SHERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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By the end of February, Saturn will be obscured by the glare of the sun.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Until recently, Greenland's 56,000 citizens went about their lives on the sparsely populated mid-Atlantic island far from the glare of international attention.—
Astha Rajvanshi,
NBC News,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Jayne and their team also realized additional implications after studying and extrapolating the scalability ratio between their mouth gapes and cranial structures.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
24 Oct. 2024
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That’s two-thirds of its own mass, and 93% of its maximal gape area.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
1 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Many people receive similar messages that seem harmless at first glance but could potentially be part of a more sinister scheme.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
19 Jan. 2025
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At first glance, the lack of results seemed surprising.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Leer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leer. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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