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lens

noun as in glass for vision

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The child may also need more time to get used to a high-powered lens, or it may not work at all.

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While French and Japanese cuisines have long been revered and viewed through a lens of prestige in the U.S.,

Ms. Cheever takes a close look at her father through the lens of his fiction in “When All the Men Wore Hats,” which combines memoir and analysis of some of his most noteworthy short stories.

She doesn’t really have the capacity to process Maggie’s confession that Hank assaulted her through any lens outside of her own experience with Hank.

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Hart doesn’t respect, hence can’t acknowledge, the human yearning to view the past through a beautiful amber lens.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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