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look out

verb
  1. To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger. (intransitive) · While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
  2. To find by looking: to hunt out. (transitive)
  3. To be facing. · A spacious room that looks out on the sea.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
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“Look out!
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 191 · C1
A woman opened it just far enough to look out, and said, “What do you want, child, and why is that great Lion with you?”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 58 · B2
Look out—here I go!”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 89 · B2
Where does the window of that look out to?” He stepped across the bedroom, pushed open the door, and glanced round the other chamber.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 44 · B2

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