sight
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Few sit down to a plate of soybeans, but soy is hiding in plain sight throughout the American diet.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
There’s a safe haven hiding in plain sight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Love is an acknowledgment, a kind of sight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Thousands of troops, including the 82nd Airborne Division, were sent to the Middle East more than six months ago for a deployment that is now stretching into 2027 with no obvious end in sight.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
When she caught sight of me, she took off her glasses and stood up.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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SHANGHAI—Chinese biotech companies, rapidly evolving from manufacturers of low-end generic drugs to serious competitors to American pharma giants, are training their sights on one of the most lucrative medicines: GLP-1s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The underwater vehicle was coasting about six feet above the ocean floor, two miles deep, when a pinkish, mysterious creature swam into its camera’s sights, drawing gasps in the research vessel floating at the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Between September 14 and 20, the Moon can serve as a useful guide to several notable sights in the night sky.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Rather than simply creating a secluded vacation home, DiCaprio set his sights on turning the undeveloped island into an environmentally conscious luxury resort.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
But Shackleton set his sights on a new goal: to be the first to cross the southern continent from one side to the other.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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It was about a legally blind player who made our team, legitimately earning his spot over some sighted players and also scoring in a game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Hammerheads were sighted off the Southern California coast in 2015, during the last strong El Niño cycle, California State University Long Beach Shark Lab expert Chris Lowe said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Pakistani navy published an alert Friday warning that a mine had been sighted in the strait off Oman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
After D-Day, with B-25s sighted over Salonika, Doundoulakis met one of his neighbors on the street: “Helias, do you see?” he cried.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
But he kept pushing the stuff into his mouth with the dogged perseverance of a long-distance runner who has sighted the finishing-line and knows he must keep going.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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The Sacramento Bee, which reported earlier on the wolf sighting, called the appearance of the canine in Lake County “especially significant” because much of the species’ recovery has occurred east of Interstate 5.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology, he defines a UFO sighting as the sort of sense impression that happens “when the heavens break down and stop working.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The sighting still needs to be accepted by the California Bird Records Committee, which reviews and confirms rare bird sightings in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
There is also a fake Facebook post claiming to be from Yorkshire Police - no force with that name actually exists - and suggesting that the force is taking the rumoured sighting seriously.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Thus they did not come back to Astowell, but passing by Far Toly and Sneg without sighting them, first raised land off the southernmost cape of Koppish.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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