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cyclopean

[sahy-kluh-pee-uhn, sahy-klop-ee-uhn] / ˌsaɪ kləˈpi ən, saɪˈklɒp i ən /


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"It's mind-boggling that our pineal gland's ability to regulate our sleep according to light stems from the cyclopean median eye of a distant ancestor 600 million years ago," concludes Dan-E Nilsson.

From Science Daily Apr. 27, 2026

“They are like apotropaic amulets warding off the evil eye: an army of ever-watchful, unblinking, cyclopean eyes,” wrote critic Zoé Samudzi in a short monograph of William’s work published in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2023

Despite his bioweapons plot, clever name, and cyclopean henchman, Rami Malek’s masked villain Lyutsifer Safin comes across as a middling throwback.

From Washington Times Oct. 11, 2021

Each of these cars radiates that same sense of possession, of intimacy with the night and the cyclopean metropolis.

From The New Yorker Nov. 26, 2016

Back in the family circle, I remarked to myself how like a cyclopean eye was the belly of the red-hot stove.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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