as in staring
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
visitors seem mesmerized as they peer at the variety of marine life in the aquarium's huge tank
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Recent Examples of peering
In a July 2025 post celebrating her birthday, Bündchen shared an adorable photo of her and her son peering onto a waterfall together.
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Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
The Rooms Clad in rich wood and walls of glass, my private villa featured an oversized bed, peering out onto a tranquility pond beyond a private deck.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
Last year, Winteractive featured giant pink inflatable people peering into office buildings and restaurant windows downtown.
—Neal Riley, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Page 390, to be specific, and the cartoon that shows two players peering nervously into the manager’s office.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
And there at ringside, his good eye peering through his Rolleiflex, was Schiller.
—David Margolick, Air Mail, 3 Jan. 2026
Mamdani inspires supporters in freezing cold Temperatures in Manhattan, even with sun peering between buildings, hovered in the 20s.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
Or by peering too hard into the future.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025
Kenny Chesney walks around office on the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center in New York City, peering out the floor-to-ceiling windows in search of his skyline barometers—the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and one of his favorite places to perform, MetLife Stadium.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peering
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Below-average play is often staring you right in the face while catastrophe lurks around the corner.—
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The face in question, below, involves Sherman staring with her mouth agape.—
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After LaRavia made 10 of 11 shots to introduce himself to fans and Minnesota star Anthony Edwards, the Lakers’ general manager splashed a photo of LaRavia gazing out of a window on the front page of a faux newspaper and printed it on a black T-shirt.—
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In the touching clip, the pair embraced each other while gazing at a sunny, scenic view.—
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Here, astronomers are gawking at a radio signal that appears crudely on the screen like a crooked game of Pong but turns out to be a line of data repeated every 78 seconds from 600 light-years away.—
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But the cringe-comedy antics of the original NBC series landed far better in Season 3 than in Season 1, once audiences began to truly love the characters instead of just gawking at them.—
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“Peering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peering. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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