eye
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When he announced the charges last week, Hochman said that while the comments captured by Flores were deplorable, he couldn’t turn a blind eye to a blatant violation of the state’s two-party consent recording statute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
He just knew something about it had caught his eye.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The singer and actress, who has been in the public eye since she was a teenager, is planning to take a break from the spotlight after her sold-out tour ends on Sept. 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Meanwhile, continue to keep an eye on your accounts and wait for your moment to act.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 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
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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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And of the wauerynge of thy mynde / thyn eyen / & other vnmanerly behauyour of all thy body.
From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Betson, Thomas
But lo, the love of his eyen, and the kindness of his face!
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William
Camus— "This wenche thikke and wel y- growen was,With kamuse nose, and eyen greye as glas."
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
‘That ye shall mete with good Robyn, On lyve yf that he be; Or ye come to Notyngham, With eyen ye shall hym se.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
Dobbie has distinctive tattoos on both arms, including an image of two blue tiger-like eyes on his right arm and a blue and red Rangers tattoo on his left arm.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The company has paired with Google Gemini and Samsung to incorporate “technology that allows you to explore, remember, navigate, and connect while keeping your eyes on the world around you,” said Co-CEO Neil Blumenthal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
People become infected by breathing in the contaminated air or touching the infected surface and then touching their eyes, noses or mouths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
I may or may not have rolled my eyes, expecting to see a spider—something my North London upbringing taught me to care little about—when I froze.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
He gets this giddy look on his face and playfully rolls his eyes.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Range the brown hair, it blinds her eyne, Dash cold water over her face!
From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Dutt, Toru
Matthew Roydon wrote of his patron, Sir Philip Sidney: His personage seemed most divine, A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely cheerful eyne.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
Come, thou monarch of the Vine, Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne!
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
"My lady shee is all woe-begone, And the teares they falle from her eyne; And aye she laments the deadlye feude Betweene her house and thine."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
His stockings of red-apple rind were tyne With an eyelash plucked from his mother's eyne.
From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur
Her 5-year-old son, Zaden, played nearby as her Boston terriers, Kylo and Dozer, eyed a stranger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Though he's "not praying for hat-tricks", many would have been asking the man above for a favour or two as Scotland eyed up their first World Cup win in 36 years.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Over half of U.S. companies are losing sales due to policy restrictions; new U.S. tariffs are expected, with Xi’s September visit eyed for clarity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
This time around, Sonenshein noted, political heavyweights such as real estate developer Rick Caruso and county Supervisor Lindsey Horvath eyed the contest only to stay out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
But he eyed me severely,—as if I had done anything to him!—and departed with the words reproachfully delivered: “Boy! Let your behaviour here be a credit unto them which brought you up by hand!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Having recently opened its first offices abroad, in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, A7 says it is eyeing expansion into Latin America and the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Georgia Hunter Bell is eyeing an ambitious sweep of gold medals in 2026 after winning the 800m Commonwealth Games title in Glasgow.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
With summer in full swing, affluent buyers with cash to burn may be eyeing second homes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Buoyed by the development, the small southern African country is determined to go much further in its drive for local processing of its resources, even eyeing its own production of rechargeable lithium batteries.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
“What do you want?” the man replied in English, eyeing them with amazement.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
They are warily eying Mr Johnson's two-part proposal without tipping their hand on how they will ultimately vote.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
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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