as in peered
to take a look with the eyes narrowed (as because of difficulty seeing) He squinted in her direction, but couldn't make her out with the sun behind her.
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Recent Examples of squinted Pok squinted against his bedroom's harsh, swinging light. —
Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026 Dressed in periwinkle, Annie took off her shoes in front of the sunflowers, sat down, squinted into the sunlight and smiled. —Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026 Carson squinted at prices before hooking the fuel nozzle to the tank of his scarlet Buick. —Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2026 Giles cranked the boat back around, leaned out from behind the steering wheel and squinted past a bright glare on the water. —Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025 Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the wings of migratory monarch butterflies traveling from west of the Rocky Mountains. —Olivia Maule, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025 The page squinted up at the nightingale, her dull feathers and stippled breast. —Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025 The Babycatcher looked up at the sky and squinted. —Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026 Dressed in periwinkle, Annie took off her shoes in front of the sunflowers, sat down, squinted into the sunlight and smiled. —Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026 Carson squinted at prices before hooking the fuel nozzle to the tank of his scarlet Buick. —Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2026 Giles cranked the boat back around, leaned out from behind the steering wheel and squinted past a bright glare on the water. —Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025 Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the wings of migratory monarch butterflies traveling from west of the Rocky Mountains. —Olivia Maule, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025 The page squinted up at the nightingale, her dull feathers and stippled breast. —Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025 The Babycatcher looked up at the sky and squinted. —Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered 10,000 light-years into space to trace the origin of buckyballs, which are large and hollow molecules resembling a soccer ball.— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
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Christel Krueger peered through thick glass and murky water at the Berlin Zoo, staring in awe at a mother hippopotamus and her child sleeping on a sandbar.— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
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McDavid’s only goal was a somewhat fluky power-play tally that glanced off defenseman Pavel Mintyukov’s stick.— Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
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With the Mets playing their infield in, Johnston's sharp grounder in the seventh glanced off second baseman Marcus Semien's glove for a two-run single.— CBS News, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Anyone who has ever stared at a blank page knows that getting from idea to finished manuscript is the hard part.— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
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The audience stared at the models, tried to turn away.— Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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The electricity went out at New Terrain Brewing Company in east Golden for about 36 hours, was on for a few hours and blinked out again for hours.— Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
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So who actually blinked first and who really came out on top?— Josh Meyer, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Squinted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/squinted. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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