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eye

[ahy] / aɪ /


NOUN
optical organ of an animate being
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While the impact will not be visible from Earth with the naked eye, people with access to a sophisticated telescope may be able to see a flash radiating off the Moon's surface, Bothwell said.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Ariana Grande delivered a four-minute speech to more than 20,000 of her fans in Chicago on Monday night amid reports that she’s stepping away from the public eye due to online scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Plenty of internet pundits, however, have kept their eye on this and continued to deliberately stoke the anger themselves.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

Boom-bust cycles now happen in the blink of an eye.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Clare clapped his paws over his eye, laughing with glorious relief.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

Tears fell out of his eyen two, He would have gone his way.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Only the intellect, withouten more, That dwelled in his herte sike and sore, Gan feillen, when the herte felte deth; Dusked his eyen two, and failled his breth.

From Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

—Ah, is aught better now than aught, when Juno utter great, Yea and the Father on all this with evil eyen wait?

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

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

I wasn’t exactly jittery, but I was able to open my eyes extra-wide.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

She may sport blond hair and kohl-lined eyes, but her signature is a heavy dose of hemoglobin red.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

In another, a marmot eyes the game camera, getting closer and closer to the lens.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

One family member told me this left them feeling "utterly disrespected that he refused to look me in the eyes".

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

A little boy with jet-black hair and dark eyes comes up to Ford and says something in Spanish.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

His stockings of red-apple rind were tyne With an eyelash plucked from his mother's eyne.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur

Is it mine eyne, or Valentino’s praise, Hanmer.

From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

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 Lowell, Orson

"Come," said he, "an' ye go to that, I'll wrestle ye, my lad, if so be you will let me blindfold your eyne."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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

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

Roboticists have eyed the garment manufacturing industry for decades.

From BBC May 18, 2026

Various media and tech players eyed the brand—with its four decades of cultural cachet, 100 million aggregate social media followers, and Rolodex of Bezoses and Ballmers.

From Slate May 8, 2026

Aru eyed Vajra, who was happily bouncing beside her in a way that reminded Aru of someone excitedly nodding.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

He showed up a minute later, eyeing the contents of my shopping cart and used the cat food in it as an icebreaker to ask about my cat.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

The UK last hosted the Olympics in 2012, and London mayor Sadiq Khan is eyeing up another bid for the 2040 event.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

She was eyeing the entryway that led into the temple, the very entry Ekon had come through just minutes before.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

Sherman showed them a picture of a little fish lying camouflaged at the bottom of the sea, eying a big fish.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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