as in stares
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade
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Recent Examples of goggles
Spencer Soper, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
Safety goggles should be worn to avoid eye injury in the event of sparking.
—William Miller, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
In one, a pair of kid bicyclers take the foreground, ogling the lens through goggles, while an oblivious gentleman in the background reads a newspaper, like a movie extra.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
The defense has said that Oath Keepers were dressed in helmets and goggles to protect themselves from possible attacks from left-wing Antifa activists.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2022
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But many other divisions were losing staff, including its HoloLens goggles business which is scaling back work on a headset for the US Army that Congress declined to fund this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
—Spencer Soper, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
Safety goggles should be worn to avoid eye injury in the event of sparking.
—William Miller, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
In one, a pair of kid bicyclers take the foreground, ogling the lens through goggles, while an oblivious gentleman in the background reads a newspaper, like a movie extra.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
The defense has said that Oath Keepers were dressed in helmets and goggles to protect themselves from possible attacks from left-wing Antifa activists.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goggles
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In the picture, Duggar holds her son, who wears a gray onesie and stares into the camera.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Thus, Botticelli’s Jesus, who stares at the fruit in deep thought, perhaps prophesies his own death and return, as opposed to the child in the Dreyfus Madonna, who proudly shows the unity of his church to his mother.—
Demir Alp,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Aug. 2025
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Charles gets boxed in by the camera, which gazes up at Anniston with near reverence.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Four of the men look at the camera, one gazes at the distant beach, another scratches his head, and the last, the uber-famous Frank Gehry, studies the sand at his feet.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Goggles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goggles. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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