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peering
1[ peer-ing ]
adjective
- looking narrowly or searchingly, as in the effort to discern clearly:
We'll build it underground, far from the peering eyes of passersby.
She risked a peering glance out into the dark corridor.
noun
- the act of looking narrowly or searchingly, as in the effort to discern clearly:
For my annual peering into the future, here are a few remarks about the changing economy.
peering
2[ peer-ing ]
noun
- an arrangement under which two or more networks are connected so as to route traffic independently in a direct exchange of data:
The peering of these two large internet providers will bring faster broadband speeds to the island’s east-coast communities.
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Other Words From
- peer·ing·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
But peering more closely at the photograph, taken this August, his weary brown eyes reveal a darker truth.
They sit on tall chairs with bright red seats peering down into microscopes.
Peering over a notebook this time, I saw him as a character in a larger story about outlaws.
"Peering inside [these] sleek, circular contours reveals a whole lot of nothing," Steven Hyden recently wrote on Grantland.
The camera homes in on a young boy peering out the window, his face faintly visible through its steel security bars.
It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
As he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.
They were walking down a corridor, and Miss Thangue was peering through her lorgnette at the cards on the doors.
He saw her dear face peering through the dimness at him, the eyes burning like two dark precious stones.
Peering through the window, over the flats, I saw a light gleaming steadily at the head of the village street.
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