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  • verb Present participle of espy.

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Examples

  • So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.

    Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011

  • So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.

    Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011

  • Any museum-goer who has peeped through the eyeholes in the rough wooden-door façade of Marcel Duchamp's "Etant Donnés" 1946-66 and caught sight of that work's sprawling, naked, female mannequin will get a sense of what espying Eiko and Koma feels like.

    In a Place of Dreams and Dreamers Robert Greskovic 2011

  • So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.

    Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011

  • So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.

    Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011

  • So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.

    Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011

  • She probably wanted to be a very great artist, he felt, espying a deeper ambition precisely because it was buried.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • She probably wanted to be a very great artist, he felt, espying a deeper ambition precisely because it was buried.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • She probably wanted to be a very great artist, he felt, espying a deeper ambition precisely because it was buried.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • She probably wanted to be a very great artist, he felt, espying a deeper ambition precisely because it was buried.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

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