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sight

[sahyt] / saɪt /


NOUN
horrifying person or thing
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Near the end of the Balboa Peninsula, visitors and locals gathered at the Public Pier to gawk at the surreal sight of water lapping closer to the sidewalk than they had ever seen before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Olid felt her team were trying to do too much and had lost sight of some of their strengths, including their defensive organisation.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

American travelers have grown increasingly wary of traveling to Europe as the wars in Ukraine and Iran show no end in sight.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

But with no end to the war in sight as it approaches the end of its eighth month, energy prices are set to remain high.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I ducked out of sight, waited a minute, then looked again.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

At just 15 years old, Mitchell Lawrie has his sights on a £501,000 bullseye should he beat world darts champion Luke Littler in a potentially life-changing live appearance on national television.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

He set his sights on Brazil, where Russian diesel was displacing more expensive American fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

They had Graham, Clyburn and Wilson in their sights.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

After setting their sights on a history-making three-peat, the Dodgers will have to win the next four games just to advance to the World Series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

I looked at Hari to see if he was as astonished as I at such sights.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Sea turtles have been sighted laying eggs on the sand in Huntington Beach — the first known instance of a sea turtle of any species spontaneously nesting on the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Of the three most common hammerhead species, the Smooth hammerhead is most commonly sighted, Talwar said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

The police said that shortly before midnight, "an unidentified flying object" was sighted.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

There the flawed became whole, the blind sighted, and the lame and halt threw away their crutches.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

And while the report said the unnamed person making the report was “fairly reliable” due to his association with “military jet aircraft activities,” local astronomers said that Jupiter could possibly explain the sighting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Sunday, Environment Minister Joao Paulo Capobianco flew over the affected areas, sighting hundreds of fires in the middle of the protected forest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The national water agency said it was alerted to a crocodile sighting in Pandan Reservoir on 20 August.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The sighting of the extremely venomous viper, which has the longest fangs of any snake in the world, spurred the Santa Ana Police Department to issue a public advisory accompanied by exclamation points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

After using his machete to hack his way through the dense foliage—all while getting stung and bitten by wasps and ants—Kermit would set up the sighting rod.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple


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