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“He’ll look at you quizzically, but also with endearment, knowing you are a little carbon-based unit that would like to become his friend,” said David Kornblum, president of Tsuburaya Fields Media and Pictures Entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

"But you'd done nothing wrong," says Breakfast host John Kay, quizzically.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2024

Gershkovich, wearing jeans with a dark shirt over a white T-shirt, smiled quizzically from a glass box in court at journalists who were allowed to photograph him before the closed hearing.

From Reuters • Oct. 10, 2023

A Twisted Metal game cartridge falls onto his windshield; he looks at it quizzically.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Warbeak cocked her head quizzically to one side.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques