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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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