reading glasses
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On 9/11, he was in the North Tower lobby, about to head up to work, when he decided to stop at an optometrist’s shop in the street-level concourse to get his reading glasses fixed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
She pauses, fiddling with her red-framed reading glasses.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
I give her a magisterial stare over the top of my reading glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
Mr. Thompson took out his reading glasses to deliver the announcement onstage, reading from a script scrawled across a creased notecard.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
I sat on the side of my bed and rustled through the drawer of the night table, through the tissues and reading glasses and Christian Science leaflets belonging to one of Francis’s aged female relatives.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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