look around

See also: lookaround

English

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Verb

look around

  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see look, around.
  2. To inspect a building or area.
    We're interested in buying this house. Can we look around tomorrow?
  3. To search a place.
    I can't find my keys, so I'll look around.
  4. (intransitive) To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.
    He heard a voice and looked around to see a man wearing dark clothes.
  5. To take note of what is going on; To make oneself aware.
    • 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
      Sure enough, when Jon appeals to centuries-old tradition binding the families of the north together, it comes off as good-hearted but short-sighted. Look around, Jon. It’s a new day. Queens rule the continent. They might rule the North, too, if tradition hadn’t made room for a bastard king. At a certain point, adhering to tradition becomes a failure to adapt. It traps people in the same deepening grooves of history their parents died in.
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