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eye

[ahy] / aɪ /


NOUN
optical organ of an animate being
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Local researchers say he has his eye on fresh gold reserves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

“So we can’t rule that out ... We’re going to be keeping a close eye on the storm system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Wearing a royal blue jumper with a red collar, the musician then urged fans to keep an eye out for and support each other.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

"As a society, we should look at where we are failing our children, and what we can do to keep a closer eye on them and what they're doing."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

There’s a ray of light streaming through the window, and when it hits my eye, it feels like daggers stabbing my cornea.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

Mary and Alice could, at least, say the text, and when it came to Annie's turn she always said: "Nkokop nte Jesus edi eyen Abasi"—"I heard that Jesus is the Son of God."

From The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith by W.P. Livingstone

O woe for the well-watched Signy, how often on that day Must she send her helpless eyen adown the woodland way!

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris

Sore were their hearts and salt their eyen as Roderick rode by; “There goes a worthy vassal who has known bad mastery.”

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

Greet her well, the sweetë thing, With eyen gray!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

“I would literally open my eyes and be like, did I tell anyone?” says Sloan, who co-wrote the song “What’s Wrong With Me,” with Rodrigo and the singer’s longtime producer, Daniel Nigro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

“What you see with your eyes, you will not believe!”

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

"What colour their eyes were, their hair, what they wore."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Our two eyes observe the world from slightly different positions, helping the brain distinguish nearby objects from those farther away.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

And did we have our eyes open or closed?

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"Alas!" the younger sister said, "Say then, What is the likeness of this first of men; What sayest thou about his loving eyne, Are his locks black, or golden-red as thine?"

From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris

Of this termination we have evident remains in the words oxen, hosen, shoon, eyne, words more or less antiquated.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

For licht wis the laughter in bonny Kinreen, An' licht wis the footfa' that glanced o'er the green, An' licht ware the hearts a' an' lichtsome the eyne, Och hey, Kinreen o' the Dee!

From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various

Pules it in the candle light Wi' a cheek so lean and white, Chinkling up its eyne so wee, Wailing shrill at her an' me.

From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter De la Mare

First, as applied to a colour— Come, thou monarch of the Vine, Plumpy Bacchus with Pink eyne.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

It centered on South Carolina, one of the states Navatek eyed for a rapid expansion.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The agreement clears the way for a deal that Ellison eyed even before his production company Skydance won another hard-fought battle to merge with Paramount in August 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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

He eyed it curiously, then put his hands on the shards and began to move them around the ice.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

Google has a message for New Mexico’s Lea County, an area of arid pastureland in the oil-rich Permian Basin, that the company is eyeing as a possible home for a new data center: “We’re listening.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sharman is also eyeing a run in 2028.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Within the U.S. junk-bond universe, he said he prefers higher-quality assets, while the selloff in safer Treasurys has him eyeing opportunities to extend duration into longer-term government debt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

‘We are getting out,’ said Renn, eyeing her bow in the enormous fist.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Voters from more than 100 countries followed the action at Katmai's Brooks River through live web streams, where bears can be seen scooping up salmon and eying up their competition.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

Mother was eying the boat, the canned goods, and perhaps the whole of our future.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


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