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gawk

verb as in stare at in amazement

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We gawked at the sea creatures — lobsters, soft-shell turtles, wriggling live eels — while she filled the cart.

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Nearly 100 reporters still showed up to gawk at their greatness.

Gone are the days where prospective moviegoers would roll up to the theaters and gawk at the board for their next watch.

Those tumors would often cause passersby to gawk cruelly, which made Pearson feel an unlikely kinship with the notable figures who stopped by the hospital.

Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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