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[ verb ] rely or depend on
Examples "you can count on me to help you any time" Used in print (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)Most park planners look_to water frontage for basic park areas . |
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[ verb ] turn one's interests or expectations towards
Examples "look to the future" "this method looks to significant wavings" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)The Eichmann case looked_to the past , not to the future . (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Chandler , looking_to right and left to see how his men were faring , suddenly saw another figure bounding up the hill , hurling grenades and hollering the battle_cry as he ran . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)No_longer did the sovereign look_to the law_of_nations to determine what he ought to do ; his search was merely for rules that might limit his freedom of action . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be excited or anxious about
Synonyms Used in print (Los Angeles Times,...)`` As we look_to the $ 800 billion economy that_is predicted for 1970 and the increase of about 40 % in consumer expenditures that will be required to reach that goal , management can well be restless about how this tremendous volume and number of new products will be created and marketed '' , Peterson said . (Frank Murphy, "New Southern Fiction: Urban or Ag...)Even two decades ago in Go_Down , Moses_Faulkner was looking_to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way_of_life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil . |
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