sight
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And in 2024, the former England striker spoke movingly about his son James's sight loss, saying: "If I could give him my eyes... I would."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
But I was nonetheless relieved that Pericles’ happy ending is intact — a reassuring sight in our age of successive disasters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
They’re hiding in plain sight, as ordinary people who run businesses woven into the fabric of everyday life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Given its massive size, it would interrupt the sight lines between the Lincoln Memorial, one of Washington's iconic landmarks, and Arlington National Cemetery, the final resting place for hundreds of thousands of American servicemembers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Though she wasn’t a welcome sight to me, I admit she cut a teacherish figure.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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The underwater vehicle was coasting about six feet above the ocean floor, two miles deep, when a pinkish, mysterious creature swam into its camera’s sights, drawing gasps in the research vessel floating at the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Between September 14 and 20, the Moon can serve as a useful guide to several notable sights in the night sky.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
It is those white-collar jobs that Blume now has in his sights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
In 2001, the actor turned his real estate sights across the pond and picked up a $1 million London loft in a converted jam factory.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
I began searching my mind for a consoling way to view the roadside sights and also, frankly, for something likely to impress Farmer.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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It was about a legally blind player who made our team, legitimately earning his spot over some sighted players and also scoring in a game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Of the three most common hammerhead species, the Smooth hammerhead is most commonly sighted, Talwar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Pakistani navy published an alert Friday warning that a mine had been sighted in the strait off Oman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Eid al-Fitr, which means "the festival of the breaking of the fast", begins when a new moon is sighted in the evening sky.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
He profiled directly in front of the bull, drew the sword out of the folds of the muleta and sighted along the blade.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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It’s the state’s northernmost sighting to date, according to state records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The sighting still needs to be accepted by the California Bird Records Committee, which reviews and confirms rare bird sightings in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
There is also a fake Facebook post claiming to be from Yorkshire Police - no force with that name actually exists - and suggesting that the force is taking the rumoured sighting seriously.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Eager cruise passengers zipping around New York's southern shores rush to the starboard bow: a humpback whale is up for air, a breathtaking sighting set against Manhattan's iconic skyline.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Often when sighting along an arrow, there to the side I would glimpse the young man or young woman, but when I looked directly, he or she would be old again.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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