cross-eyed
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“It feels like I can almost read the Matrix code in those wings if I look at it cross-eyed hard enough,” said another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
And yes, those poll watchers are there the whole time, bored cross-eyed, eager to clock anything they can call an irregularity.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
“You kind of get cross-eyed at some point,” Ms. Maddox said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
And so people who look at me cross-eyed when I do, OK.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
In it, Mariam saw her own face first, the archless, unshapely eyebrows, the flat hair, the eyes, mirthless green and set so closely together that one might mistake her for being cross-eyed.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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