stargazed

past tense of stargaze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazed
Verb
  • When the company abandons its traditional Nutcracker for a childless, avant-garde version — thus denying Harris’s daughter the starring role she’s dreamed of — Harris leaps into action.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Renovations are taking place, and the place is being turned into everything the entire family dreamed of.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Johnson, who authored a paper in 2023 about the importance of building virtual cells, hopes that whatever scientists end up building will be capable of being visualized.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • One big advantage of this tool is that the mathematical operations describing the forces between particles can be visualized as diagrams.
    Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Who among us hasn’t fantasized in the shower about exacting elaborate revenge for petty upsets, or lain awake trying to reframe our humiliations as epic tales of triumph?
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • At times, Russell fantasized about applying to Sarah Lawrence and getting a college degree.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The project, Muniz explained, was initially envisioned as a two-hour reunion film before those behind the series realized there was too much ground to cover.
    Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The helmers cycle through a year’s worth of seasons for Zhenya and Anatolij Pilipenko, inexperienced farmers who envisioned a new life for themselves and their two young daughters.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The 27-year-old would undoubtedly have fancied his chances of getting back on track against a beleaguered Fiorentina side, but looks set to play no part after withdrawing through injury just half an hour into the USMNT’s friendly against Australia on Tuesday.
    Jack Bantock, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Some have fancied themselves an island chanteuse (Wanda Shirk on Palau).
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • McCoy imagined a future career in advocacy.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Saturday night went better than either could have possibly imagined when the former picked up the latter a few weeks back.
    Adam H. Beasley, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Per Vogue, the proceedings also featured a famous cameo.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Between 2017 and 2023, no more than 15 NFL teams used 12 personnel on 20 percent or more of their offensive snaps in any one season; 2024 featured 18 teams that did and 2025 so far features 20.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Content must be authentic and showcase real expertise, not hallucinated knowledge.
    Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One health-care AI model confidently hallucinated a nonexistent body part.
    Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Stargazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stargazed. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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