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Looking Backward: 2000–1887
Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is an 1888 utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy in which Julian West wakes in the year 2000 to find America a socialist commonwealth.
Looking for a Man in Finance
"Looking for a Man in Finance" (Man in Finance) is a 2024 viral TikTok song by Megan Boni (@girl_on_couch), whose 19-second "trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes" chant became a Billen Ted single and global remix trend.
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is John Green's 2005 debut young adult novel about Miles Halter at Alabama's Culver Creek boarding school and Alaska Young's death; it won the 2006 Printz Award and is frequently challenged.
Looking for Alaska (miniseries)
Looking for Alaska is an American limited drama series created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage based on John Green's 2005 novel, following students at Culver Creek High School.
Looking for Eric
Looking for Eric is Ken Loach's 2009 comedy-drama, written by Paul Laverty, in which Manchester postman Eric Bishop (Steve Evets) gets life advice from visions of footballer Eric Cantona as himself; Cannes 2009, Ecumenical Jury prize.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Richard Brooks drama adapted from Judith Rossner's novel, starring Diane Keaton as teacher Theresa Dunn; based on the 1973 Roseann Quinn murder, with Tuesday Weld's Oscar-nominated supporting turn.
Looking for People to Unfollow
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW is the second album by Australian punk and alternative artist Ecca Vandal, released May 22, 2026 on Loma Vista; recorded in Richie Buxton's Melbourne bedroom, it earned seven 2026 ARIA nominations.
Looking Glass (band)
Looking Glass was an American pop rock band formed at Rutgers University around 1970, best known for the 1972 number-one hit "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)".
Looking on Darkness
Looking on Darkness is the English title of Kennis van die aand, a 1973 novel by André Brink that became the first Afrikaans literary work banned by apartheid censors.
Looking taboo
Looking taboo: a cultural prohibition on looking at, or looking back at, a person, object, or place. Known from Thompson Motif-Index C300-399, Orpheus, Lot's wife, Medusa, gaze etiquette, and the evil eye.
Looking Up (银河补习班)
Looking Up (银河补习班) is a 2019 Chinese drama co-directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, about a father raising his written-off son to think for himself.
Lookism
Lookism, or appearance discrimination, is discrimination for or against people based on physical appearance, seen in the beauty premium: plain workers earn 5 to 10 percent less.
Lookism (외모지상주의) (manhwa)
Lookism (외모지상주의) is Park Tae-jun's Naver Webtoon series begun November 20, 2014, about bullied student Park Hyung-suk who switches between two bodies; first webtoon past 10 billion views, adapted into a 2022 Netflix anime by Studio Mir.
Lookism (外貌至上主义)
Lookism (외모지상주의) is Park Tae-jun's 2014 Naver Webtoon about a bullied student with two bodies, the first Naver series past 10 billion views, adapted as a 2019 Chinese drama and a 2022 Studio Mir Netflix anime.
Lookmhee Punyapat
Lookmhee Punyapat Wangpongsathaporn, known as Lookmhee Punyapat, is a Thai actress and singer born in 1999 who leads girls' love series for Change2561 and records for GMM Music.
LookML
LookML (Looker Modeling Language) is Looker's proprietary semantic modeling language, created by Lloyd Tabb around 2012, defining dimensions, measures, explores, and views; Google opened it partly via the BigQuery-only Open SQL Interface in 2024.
Lookout Mountain
Lookout Mountain names several US features: a 2,100-foot Civil War ridge over Chattanooga, a 7,377-foot Colorado Front Range foothill, a Long Valley Caldera rhyolite volcano, a Mammoth Cave breakdown viewpoint, and a Maine summit.
Lookout, Inc.
Lookout, Inc. is an American cybersecurity company headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2007, known for mobile endpoint security, with more than 210 million devices analyzed, and led by CEO Jim Dolce.
Looks That Kill (film)
Looks That Kill (2020) is an American dark romantic comedy, directorial feature debut of Kellen Moore, starring Brandon Flynn as Max, a teen whose face kills anyone who sees it, and Julia Goldani Telles as Alex, released by Gravitas Ventures.
Looksmaxxing
Looksmaxxing (lookmaxxing) is an online subculture from incel forums, around 2015, focused on maximizing male appearance via softmaxxing (grooming) and hardmaxxing (surgery, bonesmashing); mainstreamed on TikTok and linked to body image harms.
Lookup table
A lookup table (LUT) is a precomputed array of values a program retrieves by index instead of computing them at run time, trading memory for speed.
lool ventures
lool ventures is an Israeli seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Avichay Nissenbaum and Yaniv Golan, which leads seed rounds for Israeli founders.
Loom
A loom is a device that interlaces warp and weft yarns to weave cloth, via shedding, picking, and beat-up. Looms divide into handlooms (manual) and powerlooms (motorized, including shuttleless rapier, air-jet, and water-jet types), ranging from backstrap and pit looms to Jacquard and automatic machines.
Loom (Imagine Dragons album)
Loom (LOOM) is Imagine Dragons' sixth studio album, released June 28, 2024 on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope. Nine tracks, about 28 minutes, produced solely with Mattman & Robin after the band scrapped ~150 demos; supported by the LOOM World Tour.
Loom World Tour
Loom World Tour: Imagine Dragons' tour supporting LOOM (2024). Launched July 30, 2024, Camden, NJ; first stadium tour in 2025; $304M gross, 2.8M tickets, 84 stadium shows through 2025, ending São Paulo 2025, China 2026.
Looming
Looming, Estonian for 'creation,' is an Estonian literary monthly magazine founded in 1923 by writer Friedebert Tuglas as the organ of the Estonian Writers' Union.
Loomingu Raamatukogu
Loomingu Raamatukogu, The Library of Creation, is an Estonian subscription book series founded in 1957 in Tallinn, which has published about 1,500 issues of translated foreign literature.
Loomis, Sayles
Loomis, Sayles & Company is a Boston-based investment management firm founded in 1926, serving over 1,000 institutional clients in 28 countries and managing about $431 billion as a Natixis subsidiary.
Loon
Loon (family Gaviidae, Common Loon Gavia immer): Northern Hemisphere foot-propelled diving fish-eaters; solid bones, long takeoff runway, yodel-wail-tremolo-hoot calls, first breeding at six years, lead tackle the leading adult mortality cause in New Hampshire.
Loon (rapper)
Loon (Chauncey Hawkins, born 1975), now Amir Junaid Muhadith, is a Harlem rapper featured on Diddy's "I Need a Girl" hits, whose 2003 Bad Boy album led to a 2004 exit, Boss Up Entertainment, and a 2008 conversion to Islam.