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1. If you look to someone or something for a particular thing that you want, you expect or hope that they will provide it. The difficulties women encounter with their doctors partly explain why so many of us are looking to alternative therapies. PHRASAL VERB: V P n 2. If you look to something that will happen in the future, you think about it. Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place. PHRASAL VERB: V P n