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eye

[ahy] / aɪ /


NOUN
optical organ of an animate being
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At this time, only Asa has unlocked the power to break and essentially died to do so, which partly explains her rakish eye patch.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

He wants to relocate part of the Downing Street operation to Manchester in Northern England, a policy that is already prompted eye rolling among some civil servants.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

They range from about one to 1,000 nanometers in size and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

"One approach is to set the building back from the street and... to arrange greenery so that, at eye level, its presence doesn't feel so overwhelming," Jouzuka told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

But soon after, he’d seen his reflection in a glassy pond, his left eye socket gaping grotesquely above his snarled whiskers.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

Camus— "This wenche thikke and wel y- growen was,With kamuse nose, and eyen greye as glas."

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Examples are: the double negative with ne; eyen, lenger, doen, ycladd, harrowd, purchas, raught, seely, stowre, swinge, owch, and withouten.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

The fearful mothers on the walls their eyen after sent, Following the dusty cloud of them and ranks of glittering brass.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

Belike she never heard him; she lay in her misery, And the slow tears gushed from her eyen and nought of the world would she see.

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William

As criticism erupted over the tagline, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” for drawing a pun in reference to the actress’s blond hair and blue eyes, the president boosted the brand.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Another told me: "MPs have to be committed to this and keep their eyes on their seats not their egos."

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Yes, it would be better to persuade people to believe the evidence of their own eyes.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

And as such, Neill was a fount of fascinating stories and notable quotables — products of keeping his eyes open to all of the world’s strange beauty.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

I let the water run over me and close my eyes.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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 Spenser, Edmund

Alas, that ever with mine eyne I should see this sight!

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Sayt cydaunt a la tere qe tere soit sauve . . . . . . . eyne de tere ou tere est benure.

From Erthe Upon Erthe 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 Reade, Charles

"I've sene lord, and I've sene laird, And knights of high degree, Bot a fairer face than zoung Waters Mine eyne did never see."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Though he's "not praying for hat-tricks", many would have been asking the man above for a favour or two as Scotland eyed up their first World Cup win in 36 years.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

This time around, Sonenshein noted, political heavyweights such as real estate developer Rick Caruso and county Supervisor Lindsey Horvath eyed the contest only to stay out.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

On the other side, the EU has eyed India -- the world's most populous nation and a fast-growing economy -- as an important market for the future.

From Barron's May 16, 2026

Various media and tech players eyed the brand—with its four decades of cultural cachet, 100 million aggregate social media followers, and Rolodex of Bezoses and Ballmers.

From Slate May 8, 2026

Thinking about all this, Jackson eyed Miss Lawrence as she wrote out long division problems on the blackboard.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

But now public health officials are eyeing lettuce—specifically shredded iceberg that Taylor Farms, a California-based vegetable supplier, distributed to Taco Bell restaurants in at least five states.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

The new company also is eyeing possible acquisitions in food, travel and general entertainment programming, added Simpson, a former chief strategy officer at Wheelhouse, a production firm behind “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

From remote-controlled trucks delivering life-saving aid in dangerous settings to mobile phone data analysis flagging mass displacement, humanitarians are eyeing ways in which artificial intelligence can speed up and improve their operations.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

The form that both of them are in, it feels like it is going to be a shootout between two of the big guns, who are both eyeing the Golden Boot.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Abby asked, already crouched to a ready stance and eyeing our bikes.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

Voters from more than 100 countries followed the action at Katmai's Brooks River through live web streams, where bears can be seen scooping up salmon and eying up their competition.

From BBC Oct. 1, 2025

“No,” Grandpa said, eying the trap and rubbing his nose, “it wouldn’t do any good to poke a stick in it. We wouldn’t know any more then than we do now.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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