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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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Elon Musk visited the CIA headquarters on Monday for talks on government efficiency, the spy agency director of public affairs Liz Lyons told Axios.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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Chilean writer-director Felipe Gálvez, whose debut feature The Settlers premiered in Cannes in 2023, has set his second feature film as Impunity, a spy thriller set in the late 1990s around the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Dinah pretending to be French and fancy and forcing the interlopers to watch her play piano is so iconic.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2025
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Some interlopers even made the treacherous journey around the rocky headland that flanks the resort’s half-moon bay to steal onto set.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Illustration by Patricia Bolaños New York, as the best gossips know, is a snoop’s paradise—a nirvana for nosiness, an intermeddler’s Eden.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
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Walter hacks into the internet and Lottie’s phone while Shauna mopes around, and Misty snoops in Lottie’s pockets and drawers for evidence.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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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
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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 8 Apr. 2025.
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