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Look around

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  1. 1
    To inspect a building or area.

    "We're interested in buying this house. Can we look around tomorrow?"

  2. 2
    look about oneself wordnet
  3. 3
    To search a place.

    "I can't find my keys, so I'll look around."

  4. 4
    To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself. intransitive

    "He heard a voice and looked around to see a man wearing dark clothes."

  5. 5
    To take note of what is going on; to make oneself aware.

    "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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  1. 6
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, around.

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