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#1 2022-10-19 05:48:29

Peter Forster
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'piering' for 'peering'

David T’s interesting comments on pouring/poring brought this to mind. Peering is close to poring, perhaps over an ill-lit page, and piers jut out, loom over and hover above In the manner of one about to pour attention onto something below. Perhaps.

Teams can use the rubrics to assess their personal and organizational strengths, challenges, and progress. icon graphic of a face piering over a book.

Hope you didn’t spend too long piering over photos!

All the people that are against him or want him gone is because they don’t want to have someone piering over their shoulders .

While piering over the edge of a dock, taking pictures and looking for an invasive (but beautiful) marine bryozoan, I saw a flash of dark.

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#2 2022-10-19 13:00:05

DavidTuggy
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Re: 'piering' for 'peering'

Amazingly similar to the peak/peek case, too, isn’t it? Jutting out into the space visible from the pieree’s pierspective.

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