as in stared
to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way
I do wish you two would stop ogling each other during class
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Recent Examples of ogled
Dixie asks Buck, having previously ogled the shirtless firefighter during the Firefighter Games.
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Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Mar. 2026
Later, Ingram starts crying, and he’s ogled by the other child patients.
—Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
Princess Diana, Oprah, and Gwyneth Paltrow have all ogled the traditional Indian craftsmanship blended with contemporary design.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Mar. 2026
Later, Ingram starts crying, and he’s ogled by the other child patients.
—Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
Princess Diana, Oprah, and Gwyneth Paltrow have all ogled the traditional Indian craftsmanship blended with contemporary design.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ogled
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For a few seconds, everyone at Progressive Field — players, umpires, fans, cotton candy vendors — stared at the video board, awaiting the handy diagram that would determine whether the Cleveland Guardians’ lead was in jeopardy.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Chasing Horse, wearing his navy blue Clark County Detention Center uniform, stared straight ahead as victims read their statements.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts eyed their whole-wheat counterparts with suspicion.—
Sarah Todd,
STAT,
22 Apr. 2026
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Its leaders have eyed the narrow waterways like the Strait of Malacca through which this fuel flows as potential chokepoints if a future adversary wanted to strangle Beijing’s supply.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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Locals complained tourist gawked at them or traipsed through their yards.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Onlookers gawked from the balconies of nearby condo towers.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
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Rubin-Vega gazed toward the under-stairs entrance to her former apartment.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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In the first image, Cole gazed lovingly at the Little Women star, who wrapped her arm around his shoulder.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
31 Mar. 2026
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered 10,000 light-years into space to trace the origin of buckyballs, which are large and hollow molecules resembling a soccer ball.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Christel Krueger peered through thick glass and murky water at the Berlin Zoo, staring in awe at a mother hippopotamus and her child sleeping on a sandbar.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Ogled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ogled. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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