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hawk-eyed

[hawk-ahyd] / ˈhɔkˌaɪd /


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Supervising the proceedings were stern-faced male and female guards with the hawk-eyed looks of chaperones at a high school dance.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 25, 2022

Holmes's real-life model was Doyle's professor, hawk-eyed diagnostician Joseph Bell; writers from Émile Gaboriau to Edgar Allen Poe offered fictional prototypes.

From Nature Jan. 24, 2017

Before the hawk-eyed age of the Internet, readers had to use snail-mail for their chiding missives pointing out an author’s mistakes, and Fleming received some lulus.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2015

Thanks to all the hawk-eyed readers who pointed this out. 

From Economist Sep. 23, 2012

Rahel watched hawk-eyed to try and gauge how much Ammu loved Sophie Mol, but couldn’t.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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