eye
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Doctors told her she would likely never regain her vision in the wounded eye, but she has since recovered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Coming inflation releases will be key as markets eye more interest-rate hikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Psychiatry, eye and musculoskeletal conditions were some of the most common reasons for rejection.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Clare pressed a paw into his one good eye, fighting to recall the exact phrasing Nine had used.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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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His hood hanged in his eyen two, He rode in simple array; A sorrier man than he was one, Rode never in summer's day.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
And his eyen were nothing dimmer than on many a joyous tide.
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
A hugye giaunt stiffe and starke, All foule of limbe and lere; Two goggling eyen like fire farden, A mouthe from eare to eare.
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies
Maybe you are somewhat like as yet unto him whose eyen Christ touched, that at first he could not tell betwixt men and trees.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
The show made you want to soap your eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
All eyes were on the jolt higher by U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
It’s become more difficult to convince people of “bad” media’s merits, to encourage them to see with eyes other than their own.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“There’s a lot happening geostrategically and politically, but when you’re a business, you have to try to just keep your eyes on your business.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
She greets me with a smile and kind eyes.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"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
He is slye and wittie, and seeth so sharpely that he overcommeth darknes of the nighte by the shyninge lyghte of his eyne.
From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir
In every kiss I call you mine, Tell me, my dear, how pure, how brave Our child will be! what velvet eyne, What bonny hair our child will have!
From Silverpoints by John Gray
From his eyne did the glamour of Faerie pass And the Rymour lay on Eildon grass.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell
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
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
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
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The companies are planning major initial public offerings, with Anthropic reportedly eyeing a valuation of as much as $2 trillion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Atlanta could already be eyeing the first draft pick next year if this continues.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Lynn looked toward the ground and was eyeing Highland or Los Feliz for a makeshift landing spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is eyeing his next market for his EV maker’s purpose-built robo-taxi.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The lion was still watching him, eyeing him like he was some broken-legged zebra.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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
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
The arai snarled and circled, eying the broom.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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