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bird's-eye

[burdz-ahy] / ˈbɜrdzˌaɪ /




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He shifts effortlessly between bird’s-eye panoramas of battles and empires and close-up historical family dramas or images of himself rumbling along in a truck on dirt roads to visit the sites where things happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Only one small piece of the house remained: a brick fireplace with its chimney, situated near windows with bird’s-eye views of the Pacific Ocean below.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Those sitting in the second tier and gallery had a breathtaking bird's-eye view of the action as Jonas hit the canvas in the ninth after a slip.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

You have a bird’s-eye view in some scenes.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

Despite the multiple vantage points and implausible bird’s-eye view, the image works because it constitutes a self-contained reality.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson