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  • noun Plural form of look.
  • noun One's appearance or attractiveness.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of look.

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Examples

  • She looks like a high school student trying to explain that it only * looks* like she's been caught trying to run the biggest con ever.

    Palin Explains Why Alaska Experience Gives Her National Security Credentials 2009

  • Looks very Shaun of the Dead…..looks like a winner, I hope they subtitle it although it looks like you can figure out what they are saying just by watching the movie, and the guy speaks english when he opens the treasure chest "Fortune and Glory".

    Worth Watching - Dec 7: Another Dead Snow Trailer! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • If you and I see a telescope from the same viewing angle, for example, then even if I do not recognize it as a telescope and you do (so that our experiences differ representationally at this level), the way the telescope looks to both of us is likely pretty much the same (in the phenomenal sense of ˜looks™).

    Qualia Tye, Michael 2007

  • Try selling a product that looks like its stuck in the 80's to investors - I'm pretty sure they would take their money elsewhere to something that is bright, shiny, and * looks* like it will work on the next OS release.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2009

  • Try selling a product that looks like its stuck in the 80's to investors - I'm pretty sure they would take their money elsewhere to something that is bright, shiny, and * looks* like it will work on the next OS release.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2009

  • Try selling a product that looks like its stuck in the 80's to investors - I'm pretty sure they would take their money elsewhere to something that is bright, shiny, and * looks* like it will work on the next OS release.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2009

  • Try selling a product that looks like its stuck in the 80's to investors - I'm pretty sure they would take their money elsewhere to something that is bright, shiny, and * looks* like it will work on the next OS release.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2009

  • Try selling a product that looks like its stuck in the 80's to investors - I'm pretty sure they would take their money elsewhere to something that is bright, shiny, and * looks* like it will work on the next OS release.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2009

  • Try selling a product that looks like its stuck in the 80's to investors - I'm pretty sure they would take their money elsewhere to something that is bright, shiny, and * looks* like it will work on the next OS release.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2009

  • V. v.9 (288,1) one that promis'd nought/But beggary and poor looks] To promise _nothing but_ poor _looks_, may be, to give no promise of courageous behaviour.

    Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

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