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eye

[ahy] / aɪ /


NOUN
optical organ of an animate being
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The acne on her cheeks and chin made her hesitant to look her bosses in the eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"It's ever increasing, ever worrying - keeping an eye on the news, keeping an eye on the diesel prices," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Nitin Katiyar, a digital journalist, told The Times of India newspaper police had punched him in the eye.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

A physician sitting down to talk at a patient’s eye level before delivering devastating news.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The wandering soul scrutinized Clare in return, her expression moving through surprise, curiosity, discomfort, then—when she spotted his empty eye socket—disgust.

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

Tears fell out of his eyen two, He would have gone his way.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

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 William Morris

Only the intellect, withouten more, That dwelled in his hertè sike and sore, Gan faillen, whan the hertè feltè deth; Dusked his eyen two, and failled his breth.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

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

As development progresses, their descendants gradually become more specialized, eventually forming structures such as the nervous system, skin, blood, and eyes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow, Dodger Nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mona transforms before our eyes from a diffident mother of two in an unhappy marriage into the star she always could be, though not without a few bumps in the road.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

“This budget comes at a moment when the wary eyes of global financial markets are elsewhere,” said Jack Meaning, chief U.K. economist at Barclays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

As Father Monaghan casts his eyes over Tala, he thinks of something Joey once told him.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Pules it in the candle light Wi' a cheek so lean and white, Chinkling up its eyne so wee, Wailing shrill at her an' me.

From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter De la Mare

He feels from Juda's land         The dreaded Infant's hand,     The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne:         Nor all the gods beside         Dare longer there abide,     Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

Blod and water yer come owte at ye wonde, and he wyppyd hys eyne and anon he sawgh kyth thorowgh ye vertu of yat God.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

Is it mine eyne, or Valentino’s praise, Hanmer.

From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark

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

It centered on South Carolina, one of the states Navatek eyed for a rapid expansion.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

To my right, a black bear cub eyed me curiously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Her 5-year-old son, Zaden, played nearby as her Boston terriers, Kylo and Dozer, eyed a stranger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

I eyed his hand, and he turned me loose.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Sharman is also eyeing a run in 2028.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the Taiwanese contract chipmaker that makes semiconductors for Nvidia among others, is reportedly eyeing a second site in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Other American companies are also eyeing the market, including General Matter, which is backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Atlanta could already be eyeing the first draft pick next year if this continues.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Unwilling to say no, Jinjoo took the small rectangular sweet and sat with it in her hand, eyeing him and then the candy a little suspiciously.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

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

The joke bombed and other politicians, including those eying a spot as Kamala Harris’ potential 2024 vice presidential pick, quickly jumped on the awkwardness.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024

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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