lens

Example Sentences

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Looking back at past stock picks offers a useful lens into how market conditions evolve over time.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

“English” insists on viewing its Iranian characters through a humane, rather than geopolitical, lens.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

I see flashes of modern neo-noirs like Paul Schrader’s “The Canyons,” and the cold but still realistic otherworldliness in David Cronenberg’s “Dead Ringers” and “The Shrouds,” filtered through a silly, gay “Single White Female’ lens.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

This is where you have to have someone that helps you navigate this from a PR lens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Behind her loomed a burly cameraman in a parka, though all Mrs. McCullough registered was the barrel of a lens and a blinking red light like one glowing eye.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng