eye
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“He has a writer’s eye, and I think you hear that when he’s on the air,” Robert Siegel, Adams’ “All Things Considered” co-host, said in 2002.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
He encouraged homeowners to keep an eye on potentially unstable trees throughout the year, particularly as the storm season approaches.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Its movements resembled the way the iris of the human eye changes shape as the pupil expands or narrows.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
With one eye on her baby in a pushchair, Minae Kamata operates an arcade machine in a Tokyo suburb, manipulating a claw to grab not a stuffed toy but a pack of toilet paper.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
He fiddles with the stapler in front of him and can’t maintain eye contact for more than a few seconds.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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He was going to visit around town for a while, might eyen take a look at Abraham Lincoln's tomb, while Stevenson made up his mind about tidelands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Straightwaie closynge mine eyen to gette a cleare vision of ye same, I am minded of deare friendes whose feete have kept time with mine along ye shaded wayes.
From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan
Tears fell out of his eyen two, He would have gone his way.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
And a well-looked man he was, not o’er young, belike, but rare goodly his hair fair and his eyen shining grey,—somewhat like to yours, my Lady.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
“Mistress Philippa, you be the fairest ointment for the eyen that I have seen these many days!” said the lively little Flemish lady.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
"Latino Fest this summer opened our eyes further to the audiences and musical communities we could welcome," says Marti.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
It made me well up, which embarrassed me until I glanced around the room and noticed a few others dabbing their eyes, too.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
The decent first act sketches how fundamental Matt’s wide eyes and carved cheekbones are to his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
With his lanky frame, unruly hair and sad, deep-set eyes, Turturro, 69, often inhabits twitchy, tightly wound characters, though he can also recede into stillness, conveying buried hurt and pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Dirty water covers her legs; her eyes strain, popping wide.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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The matrons march in line, And by her side is fair Lavinia seen, The war's sad authoress, with down-dropt eyne.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
I smiled upon her with my bonniest, blithest eyne.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
Range the brown hair, it blinds her eyne, Dash cold water over her face!
From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt
The evening comes and brings the dew along, The ruddy welkin sheeneth to the eyne; Around the ale stake minstrels sing their song; Young ivy round the door-post doth entwine.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
In petticoat of green, Her hair about her eyne, Phillis, beneath an oak, Sat milking her fair flock.
From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by John Potter Briscoe
It centered on South Carolina, one of the states Navatek eyed for a rapid expansion.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Shein had also eyed a listing in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
When Díaz underwent the procedure to remove loose bodies from his elbow in late April, the Dodgers eyed a post-All-Star break return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Dad eyed me, then the glass curiously, but didn’t protest.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Meta’s core advertising business delivered a strong quarter, but investors are now eyeing promising new businesses around the Muse personal assistant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Millions of voters are also eyeing the riches of the nation’s top 1%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Taylor Farms maintained that its own branded salad kits were unaffected, a distinction that mattered scientifically, if not necessarily psychologically, to shoppers eyeing the refrigerated wall of greens.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
The ChatGPT-developer is also eyeing a bumper stock market listing, which is expected to value the firm at more than $1tn.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Usually we take half that,” Jiichan said, worriedly eyeing the field.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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He told AFP that VW was eying other Asian countries and South America as places that might be receptive to its China-developed offerings.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
The company is eying a potentially blockbuster initial public offering that could draw more attention to the space sector.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026
General Catalyst is eying call centers and rental companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Labubu maker Pop Mart has doubled its profits in the last year and is eying up global expansion in 2025.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025
“Something different?” said the Martian, eying him and the coffee, referring to them both, perhaps.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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