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  1. look, looking, looking atnoun

    the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually

    "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him"

    Synonyms:
    facial expression, tone, expression, looking at, look, face, looking for, flavour, spirit, flavor, feeling, aspect, smell, feel

    Antonyms:
    profound

  2. looking, looking foradjective

    the act of searching visually

    Synonyms:
    looking for, look, looking at

    Antonyms:
    profound

  3. looking, soundingadjective

    appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms

    "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"

    Synonyms:
    sounding

    Antonyms:
    profound

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PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "looking":

    seeking, research, watching, searching, search

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How to use looking in a sentence?

  1. Theresa Covington:

    If we start looking at it like you’re doing, we’re going to find more of these babies.

  2. Maurice Blackburn principal Damian Scattini:

    When I last looked, and that was early this morning, it was about 350, so it will be north of that, we're getting information from people and we will keep them updated. Hopefully a class action is not needed but it's not looking promising for Volkswagen.

  3. Ronna McDaniel:

    We are going to keep our convention of, the business of the convention in Charlotte. That is for sure. It's going to be smaller and scaled down. And then we are looking for a different city for a celebration. There's a couple more things we need to do before we can announce that, but Jacksonville is absolutely in the frontrunning position.

  4. Transport Canada:

    The email reflects working-level discussions between highly trained aircraft certification experts of key aviation authorities who have been given wide latitude for assessing all issues and looking at all alternatives for the safe return to service of the aircraft, the views are at the working level and have not been subject to systematic review by Transport Canada.

  5. Will Roper:

    We are making resources of people available and actively looking at opportunities to tackle this development. I am trying to make sure that talent is available to help. This can include getting talent outside.


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