hawk-eyed

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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

Each campaign now watches hawk-eyed for the kind of small mistakes seen in Colorado.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2016

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

This was a district of suburban streets and small shops, and before long, hawk-eyed Asta, with Ben flying close to her, cried out, “Left! Left!”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman