looks on

verb

present tense third-person singular of look on
as in looks

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looks on
  1. looks
  2. stares
  3. gazes
  4. peers
  5. glares
  6. gapes
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  • What Hasty built instead compares each coach against the specific opposing talent his players faced, which means a good coach with a bad roster finally looks different from a bad coach with a good one.
    — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The format rewards behavior that looks nothing like traditional ecommerce.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of looks
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  • Which is why her character flicks through YouTube plastic surgery videos and stares at older women on the bus, comparing her wrinkles and checking her neck for any signs of sagging.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Taped to the glass divider of Ryan McMahon’s locker, a drawing of Trent Grisham stares at the Yankees’ clubhouse.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of stares
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  • An investor gazes at a share price board showing various stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on August 25, 2015.
    — Justina Lee, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Yan gazes intently at how the colors reflect against Pascoal’s skin, eyes and hair.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of gazes
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  • The Fanta mascot peers out from a pantry door—the same pantry door that was in the house in Auckland where the Kings moved in 1960.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Hubble excels at producing razor-sharp images of individual objects, Webb peers farther back into cosmic history than any telescope before it, and Roman will survey enormous swaths of the sky to reveal how those objects fit into the wider universe.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of peers
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  • My eleven-year-old self rolls her eyes, glares at my thirty-six-year-old body, and silently calls me fat.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
Definition of glares
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  • Straitjacketed inside the inescapable present, Pearl gapes up to discover that her husband, Walker, has found her; Walker was always going to find her.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of gapes
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“Looks on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looks%20on. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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