as in to stare
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade
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Recent Examples of goggle
Over and over, we are invited to goggle at such amazingness.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
Mok, the former second-in-command of the Yellow Neck daofei, goggled his eyes in surprise.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Any human eye, goggled by a car’s windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.
—Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
Kevin Heenan, the thin-goggled duke with 30-foot range.
—Tom Corvin, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
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Watch Lottie interact with elk in wholesome moment Video footage recorded by Dewey shows Lottie staring towards the camera as an elk approaches and cautiously walks closer to her.—
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In doing so, the artist grants his subjects newfound interiority, as viewers are invited to convene and gather rather than simply stare.—
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By day, visitors can hike, cycle, and view ancient petroglyphs left behind by the area's Indigenous Northern Paiute people, before spending the night gazing up at the twinkling canopy.—
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The carousel included photos of the two romantically gazing into each other's eyes, embracing on the football field, out to dinner together, posing in their Halloween costumes and locking lips on several occasions.—
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They’re presented as endearing surprises of nature and life, celebrated rather than gawked at.—
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As impressive as massive seven-figure expedition trucks built like heavy-duty mining vehicles are to gawk at and tour at RV shows, many adventurers will ultimately prefer far, far smaller (and cheaper) rigs for actually exploring the wild.—
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“Goggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goggle. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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