lens
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The sociologist Joao Nuno Coelho offers the best lens on how Portugal sees him.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
When light passes through the eye's lens, the image projected onto the retina is reversed.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Mr. Wright analyzes China’s economic struggles through the lens of its financial system, arguing that the country’s problems are bigger and more straitjacketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
But it does mean that the permabulls, too, are viewing the world through a distorted lens.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Huygens brothers found a way to reduce chromatic aberration considerably by using a combination of two thin lenses in the eyepiece of a telescope, instead of one fat lens.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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The quality of the lenses was amazing, she thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
He appears already sporting a pair of white-out contact lenses to give him the zombified look, noting, “It’s blurry, but I can see.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
‘I would say urgency means we’re going to look at every cost with aggressive lenses and with the lenses that everything that is not related to growth will not be part of the company.’
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
For the new experiments, the researchers built specialized platinum "contact lenses" designed to act as molds for the desired corneal shape.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Other studies, which analyze plumes of gas or the number of gravitational lenses in a given field of view, also support the supernova results, implying that the cosmos will expand forever.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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