fishbowl
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It felt like she was looking through a fishbowl, she could see straight ahead but not to her right or down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Complaints about celebrity can be pretty tedious, of course; sometimes it feels as though famous pop singers have forgotten how to write about anything other than life in the social-media fishbowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024
"The fishbowl -- not the fish -- needs to change."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
Michael pretended to be intensely interested in the fishbowl full of entries.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
They're found in fishbowls on hostess stands in New Jersey diners, Chicago rib joints and the Ahwahnee Hotel's restaurant in Yosemite — all places that emit a kind of old-school cool.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2023
As a youth, Antheil practiced the piano up to 20 hours per day, soaking his hands afterward in fishbowls of cold water to ease the swelling.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2011
Check off the punch list of items in this manifest: 1. a world governed by a race of wise elders, perched on high columns and with their desiccated faces in fishbowls; cf.
From Time ● Jun. 16, 2011
It’s a sad day when fishbowls are actually filled with fish.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2010
My vision fishbowls like we’ve taken too fast a turn in the hovercar.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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