Thesaurus results for SIDE-GLANCE

side-glance

noun

Definition of side-glance

as in glance

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Recent Examples of side-glance Their humor also springs from signature side-glances and hand gestures. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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Noun

At first glance, the second-guessing commenced as Leading Change had only two career starts to his credit.

— Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
At first glance, the new Nokia 300 Charge appears to be a conventional dumbphone.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of glance

Noun

Winner of the Best Actress prize at Sarajevo after premiering in the Berlinale’s Perspectives section, the film has a bleak, unflinching gaze that sometimes skims the edges of shock-value miserablism.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
Anton, whose gaze at the couple can only be described as wistful.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of gaze

Noun

The cinematic gold in this film is the peek into the remarkable Hollywood community Short and his beloved late wife Nancy Dolman built around them.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026
From coffee table hardcovers to memoirs, Parton’s books often gifted fans a peek behind her perfectly coiffed hairdo.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of peek

Noun

In living rooms, televisions are often placed in locations where ambient light from the windows can cause visible glare.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2026
The concept is basically like a solar eclipse; a coronagraph blocks out the glare of a star such that anything around that star can come into focus.

— Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of glare

Noun

And although, as a survey-style telescope, Roman boasts a wider, faster view of the sky than either Hubble or JWST, McEnery emphasized that doesn’t make these more focused missions obsolete.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2026
In IconArrows pointing outwards A key feature of the turn into September, which begins a year's third and final act, is that analysts and investors start to calibrate their views of next year.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026

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