stargazing

present participle of stargaze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazing
Verb
  • That means Southerners dreaming of a vacation at sea no longer need to tack on a trip to Florida or New Orleans to set sail.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • All of this left many of them dreaming of being a stay-at-home wife supported and protected by a rich and masculine man.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a cell so detailed, so complete, that scientists could watch such processes happening.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Luis hangs a poster of his favorite movie star, Ingrid, and spends his time fantasizing about Ingrid as Aurora.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • McNeill said he’s been sitting at home in recent weeks, visualizing himself making plays for this defense.
    Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Next, leading multimodal AI teams invest in data-centric infrastructure that promotes collaboration and encourages visualizing model performance, not just measuring it.
    Brian Moore, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And some of these AI companies are projecting the idea even further, envisioning a future where AI agents use their coding abilities spin up bespoke software on the fly to handle many of the tasks that now require enterprise software, like, um, Salesforce.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Still others were envisioning future scenarios where a president illegally seizes power in a coup.
    Ryan Kennedy, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Then check out our roundups of the best cameras and lenses for astrophotography, along with our guide to imaging fast moving meteors and fireballs.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • By deeply imaging a large volume of space, COSMOS-Web provides JWST’s widest cosmic views.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And there was a smattering of other items, which the visitor, fancying himself an amateur academic archeologist, thought worth noting.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Stargazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stargazing. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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