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window-shopping

  • present participle
    of window-shop.
    window-shop
    verb (used without object)
    to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • a word derived from window-shop.
    window-shop
    verb (used without object)
    to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.

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"I love that you can just walk in and sort of experience it from the street," said Agata Seferynska, a Polish student who came window-shopping with a friend.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025

“Everybody is kind of in window-shopping behavior right now,” says Bre Clinton, an assistant manager for the Body Shop at Baybrook Mall.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

Most of my window-shopping nowadays is conducted online, where book covers are reduced to flat, rectangular images that are merely elements on a page.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023

I walked down Third Avenue, window-shopping and people-watching.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

The three of them moved down sidewalks like window-shopping loiterers looking into every mom and pop store along the way.

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