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lens

[lenz] / lɛnz /


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He captures their personality through a curiosity lens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Their lens finds people walking on their treadmills, talking on the phone, laughing with one another.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

There are now tiny blades around the lens that can open and close to control the light coming in, like a traditional camera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

It's a close up, emotional, insider's view, not a long lens and a headline.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The sight of the drowned farmland, the result of a dam that had made his patients some of the poorest on this earth, was Farmer’s lens on the world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Around the corner, a humming high-tech machine presses glass into lenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In practical terms, the test confirmed that ground teams can remotely control the instrument's various systems, including movable mechanisms that position its masks, color filters, lenses, and prisms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Two months in, the rose-colored lenses are especially obfuscating.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

The lenses can be used simultaneously when the device is fully open.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

I think back to the glint of intensity that I saw in Hideo’s eyes when he showed me the contact lenses.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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