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see in

verb
  1. To show (someone) in: to introduce (someone) to the inside of a place.
  2. To welcome (an occurrence). · They saw in the New Year with dancing and fireworks.
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“I’m sure you look more charming in them than any one we shall see in the most elaborate dinner toilette.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 30 · C1
Eyes that can see in the dark--the dark!
The Jungle Book, p. 29 · B2
The big, serious, old brown bear was delighted to have so quick a pupil, for the young wolves will only learn as much of the Law of the Jungle as applies to their own pack and tribe, and run away as soon as they can repeat the Hunting Verse--“Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all these things are the marks of our brothers except Tabaqui the Jackal and the Hyaena whom we hate.” But Mowgli, as a man-cub, had to learn a great deal more than this.
The Jungle Book, p. 30 · B2
It was a stroke of positive genius on his part to see in the burglary scare which was convulsing the country side an opportunity of plausibly getting rid of the man whom he feared.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 54 · B2

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