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Recent Examples of peeper
But what did come into clear view on occasion were delicately winged peepers.
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Jennifer Weil, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
The most inventive touch: those peepers on his clawed hands, rising to give the monster sight at the exact moment that audiences might decide to block their vision with a defensive palm.
—A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
But battery life is always a worry, glare while outside can be an issue and the digital screens can be fatiguing for the old peepers.
—New Atlas, 12 July 2024
That split-open peeper appears in this season’s ninth episode, during a montage that also features footage from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes (1948), Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), and other famed movies.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024
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Jennifer Weil, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
The most inventive touch: those peepers on his clawed hands, rising to give the monster sight at the exact moment that audiences might decide to block their vision with a defensive palm.
—A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
But battery life is always a worry, glare while outside can be an issue and the digital screens can be fatiguing for the old peepers.
—New Atlas, 12 July 2024
That split-open peeper appears in this season’s ninth episode, during a montage that also features footage from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes (1948), Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), and other famed movies.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peeper
Noun
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Perhaps married spies, like the ones in Steven Soderbergh’s silky spy caper Black Bag, have the answer.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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At the Four Seasons Koh Samui, a five-star hotel overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, staff study guests like spies watching their marks.—
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Fire is the native, natural presence, and human development is the invasive interloper.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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Sheridan has an affinity for writing characters who have lots of big things to say about the world around them and their place in it; Yellowstone features hours of John Dutton solemnly orating on the subject of Montana, the ranching way of life, and the threat posed by outside interlopers.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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And a feature called Track Cleaner wipes away tracks and traces of your computer and internet use, to foil snoops.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
26 Mar. 2024
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Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives from biotech and other health care companies.—
Molly Castle Work and Arthur Allen,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Not that Miss Manners believes that hearing that explanation — or any other — would discourage a determined busybody.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Of all people to hand a secret to, a religious busybody has to be among the worst.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2024
Noun
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This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.—
Joe Jackson,
Outside Online,
18 Oct. 2022
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Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.—
Michelle L. Quinn,
chicagotribune.com,
20 Oct. 2021
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“Peeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peeper. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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