at first sight
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Audrey describes the moment they met at a gathering for donor conceived activists in 2010 as "love at first sight" - but was this connection a romantic or genetic attraction?
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Happy anniversary from a California native who fell in love with the coast at first sight, and shame on those who would defile it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Brussels said the fee offered earlier this year "at first sight" was "in practice equivalent to the previous access ban".
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
He fell in love at first sight with an attorney named Clare, with whom he had a long and happy marriage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Offhand, I can remember seeing just three girls in my life who struck me as having unclassifiably great beauty at first sight.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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