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lens

noun as in glass for vision

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“We’re not resisting this effort, and we don’t have any interest in people feeling like there is some political or religious lens on our lending,” the general counsel at a large U.S. bank said.

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“A lot of the ways that I look at the world are through the lens of a dad,” he said.

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Widening that lens beyond Tulsa gives Cyrus and Marty’s line a more nationally relevant and less sympathetic perspective.

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Straights and queers, in other words, never get a clear view of each other through a flat lens.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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