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eye

[ahy] / aɪ /


NOUN
optical organ of an animate being
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The former Fulham man is direct and evidently has an eye for goal, with a happy knack for scoring in big games.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

His heads are life-size, hung at Lévy Gorvy Dayan at eye level, and we are compelled toward them to begin a conversation with their subjects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Rapid eye movement sleep is particularly recognizable because the eyes move beneath closed eyelids and most dreaming takes place during this stage.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

But his director’s eye lacked style and discernment.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

I ask her again, and she replies, but never looks me in the eye.

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

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 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 Thomas Betson

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 William Morris

Examples are: the double negative with ne; eyen, lenger, doen, ycladd, harrowd, purchas, raught, seely, stowre, swinge, owch, and withouten.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

"Welcome to Sicilian. My name is Robia," the waitress says in an electronic voice, looking down at diners through blinking red LED eyes.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

"If they didn't take the right decision I don't know. We have to keep the eyes on the performance where can improve."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Then they turn their eyes to how the stock market is responding to the election and A.I. data center backlash.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2026

Start with the gravely voice that rumbles and mumbles, make your eyes as heavy-lidded as possible, add a swaggering shoulder roll and then just brood, baby, brood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Wes has a skin tone slightly more bronze than the others, and he has light-green eyes.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

His eyne were like two coals of fire as he called to us in a loud voice.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

"She has no time To looken backe, her eyne be fixed before."

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

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

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

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

Bloom reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings last month, although investors eyed its spending and negative cash flow.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

She wrote about the need for governments to be "braver" in building big infrastructure projects and "clear eyed" about the risks and benefits AI would drive in advanced economies.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

The wolf eyed Jack closely, as if watching for Jack’s reaction.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

The chain has one location in Arizona and is eyeing expansion into other states, a spokesperson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Diesselhorst is chief executive of Paladin EnviroTech, a recycling company eyeing a new role as a supplier of rare-earth metals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Millions of voters are also eyeing the riches of the nation’s top 1%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 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

Isa and Allegra stepped away from Jessie, Isa still eyeing her sister critically.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

President Trump has so far brushed off questions about whether he is eying a similar operation in Cuba.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

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

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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