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- verb Present participle of
espy .
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Examples
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So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.
Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011
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So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.
Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011
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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
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So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.
Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011
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So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.
Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011
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So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland.
Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware Seth Shostak 2011
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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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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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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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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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