eye
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Parents snapped them up, convinced they could fight eye fatigue for children accustomed to staring at screens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
There are other parts of the legal system which will have an eye on its findings.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
To recap, each Saturday we’ll break down the biggest news of the week into three categories: what mattered most, what we’re keeping an eye on, and what’s unfathomably inane.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
Rodriguez, who is governing under Washington's watchful eye since the January ouster of Nicolas Maduro, has submitted power industry reforms to lawmakers, but they have not yet been approved.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Ultimately, Joey’s visit to Saint Louis passes without incident, but Dr. Johansen maintains his watchful eye.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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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She is metely well-looking,—good of stature, and a fair fresh face, grey eyen, and fair hair, as have the greater part of maids about here, but her nose turns up too much for beauty.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
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 George Bell
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
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
“That’s in our rearview mirror. We’re all eyes moving forward.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The best that the rest of us can do, like unwilling participants in a game of Russian roulette, is shut our eyes and hope.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tarin also made her Chappell Roan montage with hopes that it would draw more eyes to “Coyote vs. Acme.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
You don't need binoculars or a telescope to see meteors, just give your eyes sometime to adjust to looking up at the night sky.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
I open my eyes, and that dream quickly fades.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Blod and water yer come owte at ye wonde, and he wyppyd hys eyne and anon he sawgh kyth thorowgh ye vertu of yat God.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
"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
Range the brown hair, it blinds her eyne, Dash cold water over her face!
From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt
Explain the use and form of eyne, edified, afflicted, weeds, Hebean, impe, compeld, areeds, blazon, ycladd.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Alas, that ever with mine eyne I should see this sight!
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
To my right, a black bear cub eyed me curiously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
One project the company has eyed up would involve boring tunnels for an underground freight-distribution system around airports and warehouses.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
China’s May purchasing managers’ indexes will offer insight into business sentiment, while Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s speech is eyed for rate hike timing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
She eyed Valley’s copy of the latest Witches of Heartbreak Cove.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Armand Duplantis singing before eyeing another world record.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
I’m usually hesitant to order chicken at a restaurant, and after repeatedly eyeing Birch’s version from afar, I finally gave in on my most recent visit.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The industry is eyeing a once-in-a-generation chance to generate tens of billions of dollars in additional income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Thanks,” said Fadi, eyeing the photo club sign-up sheet.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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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
The joke bombed and other politicians, including those eying a spot as Kamala Harris’ potential 2024 vice presidential pick, quickly jumped on the awkwardness.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
The arai snarled and circled, eying the broom.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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