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[ verb ] take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
Examples "Take the case of China" "Consider the following case" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)If we look_at the situation this way , we can get an idea of Khrushchev 's nightmarish worries - or , at_least , of the worries he might have if his enemies were disposed to exploit their advantage . (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)If we look_at recent art we find it preoccupied with form . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)But in looking_at Faulkner against his background in Mississippi and the South , it is important not to lose the broader perspective . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Look_at Castro now - cockier than ever with arms and agents to threaten the_Americas . (Jay Williams, The Forger....)But look_at us today ! Related terms |
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[ verb ] look at carefully; study mentally
Examples "view a problem" Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)My intention , therefore , is not to say that Faulkner 's awareness has been confined within the borders of the South , but rather that he has looked_at his world as a Southerner and that presumably his outlook is Southern . (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)I use this term to mean three things : a search for the human significance of an event or state_of_affairs , a tendency to look_at wholes rather_than parts , and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling . Related terms |
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