look through
verb
looked through; looking through; looks through
1
: to read or briefly examine some of the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.)
She was looking through a magazine as she waited in the doctor's office.
2
: to look at the different parts of (a collection or group of things)
I looked through all his letters.
3
: to place one's eyes so as to see through (something)
look through a telescope
4
: to pretend not to see or recognize (someone) in a rude or unfriendly way
We used to be best friends but when she passed me on the street yesterday she looked (right/straight) through me without even saying hello!
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Other astronomers followed up by looking through Rubin’s initial data and discovered that the observatory had also detected 3I/ATLAS, 10 days earlier.
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Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
The Warsh view A concern with Miran's approach is that, if the Fed keeps looking through supply shocks, markets and the public will doubt its inflation-fighting credibility.
—Matt Peterson,steve Liesman, CNBC, 15 May 2026
For decades, astronomers looking through telescopes like Hubble have been trying to catch a glimpse of the ancient epoch when the Universe’s first generation of stars ignited.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
The first step, then, is to mentally separate the world of payments and balance sheets from the world of concrete material and social objects—to learn to look at money, rather than trying to look through it.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
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Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
The Warsh view A concern with Miran's approach is that, if the Fed keeps looking through supply shocks, markets and the public will doubt its inflation-fighting credibility.
—Matt Peterson,steve Liesman, CNBC, 15 May 2026
For decades, astronomers looking through telescopes like Hubble have been trying to catch a glimpse of the ancient epoch when the Universe’s first generation of stars ignited.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
The first step, then, is to mentally separate the world of payments and balance sheets from the world of concrete material and social objects—to learn to look at money, rather than trying to look through it.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
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“Look through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20through. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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