eye
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Deterministic is trained by Miguel Clement, whose father, Hall of Fame trainer Christophe Clement, died in May from a rare eye cancer at age 59.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
As Americans prepare to vote in the US midterm elections, candidates with their eye on Congress are not just competing on policy.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The retina is the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye that converts incoming light into signals the brain can interpret.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
It is that asymmetry that’s always a fork in our eye.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
She reaches out, places her hand under Ruby’s chin, and tilts her head back so they can make eye contact.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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He was going to visit around town for a while, might eyen take a look at Abraham Lincoln's tomb, while Stevenson made up his mind about tidelands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The root of cut Malowe hanged about the neck driveth away blemishes of the eyen, whether it be in a man or a horse, as I, Jerome of Brunsweig, have seene myselfe.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
—Ah, is aught better now than aught, when Juno utter great, Yea and the Father on all this with evil eyen wait?
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
And of the wauerynge of thy mynde / thyn eyen / & other vnmanerly behauyour of all thy body.
From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Thomas Betson
Camus— "This wenche thikke and wel y- growen was,With kamuse nose, and eyen greye as glas."
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
Beyond explaining how healthy eyes develop, the findings could have important implications for treating diseases that damage the retina.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
“I’d open my eyes and see what’s going to benefit South L.A.,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Hundreds of years on, and the location itself - dark and hidden - can still be unsettling, even to modern eyes.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
That ceasefire has been a "breath of fresh air", said the 38-year-old father with piercing blue eyes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and make the room stay still.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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In every kiss I call you mine, Tell me, my dear, how pure, how brave Our child will be! what velvet eyne, What bonny hair our child will have!
From Silverpoints by John Gray
His eyne were like two coals of fire as he called to us in a loud voice.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
This said, adowne he looked to the ground, 600 To have returnd, but dazed were his eyne Through passing brightnesse, which did quite confound His feeble sence and too exceeding shyne.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
"She has no time To looken backe, her eyne be fixed before."
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
"Come," said he, "an' ye go to that, I'll wrestle ye, my lad, if so be you will let me blindfold your eyne."
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
It centered on South Carolina, one of the states Navatek eyed for a rapid expansion.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The agreement clears the way for a deal that Ellison eyed even before his production company Skydance won another hard-fought battle to merge with Paramount in August 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Many anxiously eyed a recent price crash in Malaysia, blamed on an unusually bumper harvest.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
She eyed Thorn, trying to formulate a way to get her out of these terrible witches’ path.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Millions of voters are also eyeing the riches of the nation’s top 1%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Taylor Farms maintained that its own branded salad kits were unaffected, a distinction that mattered scientifically, if not necessarily psychologically, to shoppers eyeing the refrigerated wall of greens.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
The ChatGPT-developer is also eyeing a bumper stock market listing, which is expected to value the firm at more than $1tn.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
But they can’t locate a cheaper version of that mountain cabin you’ve been eyeing, because it might only be available on Airbnb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
They cover their mouths and whisper, eyeing me through the door like they can’t wait to catch me alone.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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He told AFP that VW was eying other Asian countries and South America as places that might be receptive to its China-developed offerings.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
The company is eying a potentially blockbuster initial public offering that could draw more attention to the space sector.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026
General Catalyst is eying call centers and rental companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Labubu maker Pop Mart has doubled its profits in the last year and is eying up global expansion in 2025.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025
Sherman showed them a picture of a little fish lying camouflaged at the bottom of the sea, eying a big fish.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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