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eyeball

[ahy-bawl] / ˈaɪˌbɔl /


































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I got the hairy eyeball from fellow TV panelists when I said in 2019 that it was careless of the French to let Notre-Dame burn down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

When you open them there needs to be a pleat, so when you close them there is enough skin to cover the eyeball.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Evolutionarily speaking, you don't keep the organ that you don't need. After watching many videos, I realized this animal is moving its eyeball toward the light."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

The mass behind his eyeball grew into his nasal cavity and the side of his neck, he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Ms. Jacobs gives another little sigh and then asks us, “How are everyone’s eyeball journals coming along?”

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

“It’s just following where we know the eyeballs are.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

So far, the vision-correction experiments have been performed on isolated rabbit eyeballs rather than living animals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

“I didn’t ever intend to have so many eyeballs turn to me and go, ’What are you doing now?’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It is "better than a pilot's eyeballs" says Rose.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

She sighs again and rolls her eyes so slowly and dramatically that I wonder if her eyeballs are going to roll into the back of her head.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden


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