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eyeball

[ahy-bawl] / ˈaɪˌbɔl /


































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When you open them there needs to be a pleat, so when you close them there is enough skin to cover the eyeball.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Evolutionarily speaking, you don't keep the organ that you don't need. After watching many videos, I realized this animal is moving its eyeball toward the light."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Xie said that eyeball care treatments are common in China.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

It causes the eyeball to grow longer from front to back, making it harder to focus farther away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

They were all pretty much eyeball to eyeball with each other.

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt

"There's going to be eyeballs on every player in the World Cup," Demetriou added.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

They placed the lenses over rabbit eyeballs immersed in a saline solution intended to mimic natural tears.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

“I didn’t ever intend to have so many eyeballs turn to me and go, ’What are you doing now?’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The last 20 years, Marx said, have been one big “lowest-common-denominator fight for attention,” meaning it was easier than ever to remain a public figure and make money off the resulting eyeballs.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Of course she had no idea if ostriches cared about that sort of thing; perhaps there was some advantage to having a skull full of eyeballs instead of brains.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood


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