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One beautiful evening, a dozen people were gawking at the LAV-25 armored vehicles.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2025

“People were gawking at me and I looked suspicious when I had done nothing wrong,” André said in an interview, calling the experience “dehumanizing and demoralizing.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2022

It was November 2006, and I was a test cook at Cook’s Illustrated magazine in Brookline, Mass., when I walked over to see what my colleagues were gawking at.

From New York Times • May 3, 2021

A recent commute took an hour longer than usual because drivers were gawking at smoke-filled hills, he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2019

Compounding the problem was the fact that throughout the tense meal, all around them people were gawking at the trio and whispering.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson