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eye

[ahy] / aɪ /


NOUN
optical organ of an animate being
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It is believed she has been spending her time out of the public eye at an Alpine chalet in Verbier, Switzerland, since leaving Royal Lodge.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

When light reaches the eye, the molecules change shape.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

The director of ‘Alien,’ ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘Gladiator’ and the new postapocalyptic ‘The Dog Stars’ turns his eye toward AI, global warming and kindness.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

She paid sharpest attention to those in her ken, broadly defined as America, where she had the truest sense of need and sharpest eye for what would help.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Rather, every eye is squinting beyond the horizon, trying to see Oklahoma land.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

“Mistress Philippa, you be the fairest ointment for the eyen that I have seen these many days!” said the lively little Flemish lady.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt

His hood hanged in his eyen two, He rode in simple array; A sorrier man than he was one, Rode never in summer's day.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

A hugye giaunt stiffe and starke, All foule of limbe and lere; Two goggling eyen like fire farden, A mouthe from eare to eare.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies

"Dear Rosenbusch," the voice began again, at last, eyen a little more tenderly than before.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

That they did, and with normal service resumed in the eyes of the Springboks supporters, South Africa travel back to the Highveld with the momentum.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Similarly, in the offseason it was frequently rumored that Manchester City coveted Crystal Palace star midfielder Adam Wharton, whose verve and creativity pops off the screen even to my untrained eyes.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

“I really don’t know what to make of it because I didn’t put eyes on it,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

All eyes are on Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s speech but with no Q&A typically attached, there’s limited scope for markets to press for a clearer September signal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

I close my eyes and pretend I just had a regular day at school.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Compare Shakespeare: "Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne."

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

Shakespeare says, "the cat with eyne of burning coal," and in Middleton's Witch, Act III.,

From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir

In petticoat of green, Her hair about her eyne, Phillis, beneath an oak, Sat milking her fair flock.

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by John Potter Briscoe

Of this termination we have evident remains in the words oxen, hosen, shoon, eyne, words more or less antiquated.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

While he, perhaps, with larger eyne, Was pleased, instead of vexed, at seeing Some little petulance in mine, And loved me all the more, for being; Not too divine.

From Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

When Díaz underwent the procedure to remove loose bodies from his elbow in late April, the Dodgers eyed a post-All-Star break return.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2026

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

Treasurys weakened slightly as investors eyed the key U.S. inflation data due for release later Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 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

He did, and she eyed them as if they were a pair of rotting salmon.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

But as September approaches, they’re eyeing the calendar.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

For the restaurant’s next venture, he said he’s eyeing Australia, Singapore and Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

A new week sees the S&P 500 eyeing a new record.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Having recently opened its first offices abroad, in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, A7 says it is eyeing expansion into Latin America and the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

The rats looked to Cluny, but he was eyeing the Abbot who had joined Constance and Matthias.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Labubu maker Pop Mart has doubled its profits in the last year and is eying up global expansion in 2025.

From BBC Apr. 19, 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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