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verb

present tense third-person singular of look (at)

as in notices

to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes I found her at the mall looking at the new outfits on the mannequins

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present tense third-person singular of look at

as in debates

to give serious and careful thought to Let's look at what we're dealing with here.

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Then Indiana Jones looks at him, sighs, pulls out a gun and just shoots him. — Jim Bowden, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 The real estate firm looks at office markets in Charlotte and the surrounding suburbs. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2026

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Then, as Pike prepares to hand over the bridge to Lieutenant Rahda (Abinaya Sivakumaran), his replacement notices a slight shift in the ship’s trajectory.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
When the job takes her to an eastern Colorado cattle ranch, Jane notices that the family’s young daughter has precocious breast development as a result of the hormones the operation uses.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of notices

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Burns didn't become a five-time PGA Tour winner, contend for major championships and earn five consecutive Team USA spots without pouring himself into the game.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
When the camera spots something that matches, or resembles, the image of the target, the drone flies into it and explodes.

— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of spots

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No country has marshaled those efforts like China, where the government sees Tibet, and its Himalayan borderlands, as critical to its national and energy security.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Wall Street sees new treatments as an untapped goldmine, full of consumers who are willing to pay out-of-pocket for better options, reminiscent of the boom in GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

— Avalon Pernell, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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