look down (on)

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Verb
  • The grant money is paying to remove vegetation along a 100-foot perimeter at the upper part of the coastal canyon Buck Gully Reserve, which is 1,200 acres and bounded by homes, roadways and the Pelican Hills Golf Course.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2025
  • When that happens, the algorithm is deemed optimal — inexorably bounded from above and below, leaving no room for further refinement.
    Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Favorable product margin rates and lower supply chain costs were also margin drivers.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • E-commerce is maybe tapped into as a bonus benefit in case someone lands on their site or is done through a partner with very little oversight or control, let alone margin.
    Brandon Amoroso, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
Verb
  • The area where the body was found is about 3 miles northwest of a dam that separates Lake Oconee from neighboring Lake Sinclair just to the south.
    CBS News, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The Houthis had launched missile and drone attacks on commercial vessels traversing the Red Sea and neighboring Gulf of Aden throughout last year, forcing ocean carriers to avoid the trip through the Suez Canal and instead reroute ships around southern Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The hotel’s beach club, with loungers shaded by palapa umbrellas and a shoreline fringed with palm trees, feels like a French Polynesian getaway, thanks to its Mediterranean flair and tropical atmosphere.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Look down (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look%20down%20%28on%29. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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