sight
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Though a terrifying sight at first, the film later reveals Fricker’s character has a heartbreaking past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Wind turbines are an increasingly common sight around the training area in Gorzyca and throughout the country, where coal still accounts for over half of Poland's electricity production, the highest in the European Union.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
On the other: a shrinking labor market, tepid consumer spending and a real estate slump with no end in sight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Whether or not Argentina lifts the trophy again, the lesson is already out on the field in plain sight every time Messi touches the ball.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Then he caught sight of me, and was shouting for me to go and fetch a rope.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Pegula will now have to set her sights on this year’s U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Instead, it appears to be needed to connect natural cues, such as sights and sounds, with the ability to recall those memories.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
“Today, the program in the Commission’s sights is The View,” ABC said in this week’s filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Several big drugmakers have set their sights on China to secure rights for innovative ideas for medicines to treat cancer, obesity and other diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
“I think your pa is pulling your leg. He knows you can’t find seven folks to agree in Sassafras Springs, much less seven wonderful sights to see.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Shortly after noon on March 17, about 170 miles off the coast of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, crew members said they sighted a blue boat in the distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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
Another was seen off the coast off Bahia in Brazil before being sighted 22 years later in Hervey Bay, Australia 15,100 kilometres away.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Features can include translating text, or responding to questions about what the user is looking at - a particularly useful feature for those who are blind or partially sighted.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Nat thought he had learned to face his sorrow, until they sighted Cape Ann and he knew that in a few hours he would be home.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Five days after Samba’s escape, around dawn, a team of 20 zookeepers descended on a bush in the local woods, following a sighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Cambodia's last confirmed tiger sighting was in 2007 camera trap footage but conservationists say they may soon be able to reintroduce the big cats.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Each confirmed sighting therefore provides valuable information about where these predators still occur.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Weeks after that public sighting, the “Euphoria” star’s stylist and self-proclaimed image architect Law Roach boldly claimed to “Access Hollywood” on the Actor Awards red carpet that “the wedding’s already happened, you missed it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The entire afternoon they’d looked through binoculars in hopes of a shark sighting.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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