'peek' is a perfectly acceptable word in written English. It is an intransitive verb that means to take a quick, casual look at something. For example, "I took a peek at the report to get an idea of what it was about.".
Iowans relish their status as the first-in-the-nation caucus, and are proud of what they see as their unique peek behind the facade of presidential campaigns to decipher the real candidate.
The exclusion of this story from the public record has been a matter of some frustration for Beckett fans (although academics who asked nicely have been able to have a peek).
As you doubtless know, this was once a one-party state, an autocracy ruled by Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, less a website than a peek into a bizarro alternate universe, where the "inner aspect" is "nourished", children willingly eat flax oil for breakfast, and "bath salts for inner peace" can be had for a mere $78 £488) a packet.
Like a coming-soon trailer, this budget presented a sneak peek of better days to come, of the "view from the summit" of which David Cameron spoke at the Tory conference in 2009.
Oh, and it's pronounced like this: Tome-AH PEEK-a-tee.
This week Scott Morrison played a game of pre-budget peek-a-boo on plans for the aged pension, before revealing that the government will ditch its failed attempt to change indexation rates and instead tighten the assets test.
It also boosted the government's powers of surveillance sufficiently to provoke protests from civil-liberties groups about "sneak-and-peek searches" (though America is still less intrusive than many governments in Europe).In this section Just a few bad apples?
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