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Recent Examples of leer
Carrie Battan, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026 Harrelson brandishes that anything-goes leer that never gets old. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025 At a Black Bear party, gotcha reporters and leering industry types jockey to meet her. —Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leer
Noun
Hobert standing grinning for the camera while a menacing clown leers through a window behind her. —Carrie Battan, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026 Harrelson brandishes that anything-goes leer that never gets old. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
Set in 2023, one year after the events of The Purge, the sequel thrusts audiences into the streets of Los Angeles, where masked sickos string up the dead and leering elites auction off the poor to the highest bidder. —Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025 At a Black Bear party, gotcha reporters and leering industry types jockey to meet her. —Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leer
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Still as feisty as UConn baseball fans might remember him, the original AK touched 98 MPH and had a stare-down with Jac Caglianone after a hit by pitch.— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
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What followed was a wide-eyed stare into the wrong camera that, once the crew found the right angle, devolved into an unsettling mog.— Kennedy French, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
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Visitors who arrive at the parking lots near the amphitheater, museum or visitor center can walk across the White River Pedestrian bridge and turn to the south to ogle at the blossoms.— Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 25 Mar. 2026
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Paging through seed catalogs and ogling rare varieties might become your new favorite pastime.— Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 11 Mar. 2026
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Encouraging us to shift our gaze from the wall to our devices — to assume that accursed downward tilt of the neck when splendors abound before our eyes — is simply detrimental.— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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Romvari is just getting started in her career, while still determined to keep her expectations manageable — her gaze fixated squarely on creating and improving.— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
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Its leaders have eyed the narrow waterways like the Strait of Malacca through which this fuel flows as potential chokepoints if a future adversary wanted to strangle Beijing’s supply.— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
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And that's especially true for travelers eyeing the dreamy beaches of Sint Maarten.— Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2026
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This model also includes cellular connectivity and Nano Texture Glass for the least glare of any tablet on the market.— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
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Even polarizing lenses which can dramatically reduce glare, does so at the expense of cutting down on the light passing through the lens.— John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
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Give someone these Santa Maria Novella Melograno Bath Salts, tell them the history, and watch as their mouths gape in surprise.— Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 10 Feb. 2026
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At times, the actor feels more like a design element, akin to the marble coffins and gape-mouthed friezes of this gothic world.— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
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At first glance, fishing and brokerage seem worlds apart.— Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2026
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At first glance, this appears to contradict Theory of Relativity, which establishes the speed of light as the ultimate cosmic speed limit.— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Leer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/leer. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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