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look in on en · VERB
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To check that (someone or something) is okay or that a process is continuing appropriately; to check up on; to monitor (someone) through brief, often surreptitious checks.
Atticus would flee to his office directly after dinner, where if we sometimes looked in on him, we would find him sitting back in his swivel chair reading.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
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