wide-eyed
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Bailey has a wide-eyed clueless cuteness that lends to her character’s well-meaning naiveté — even her missteps have a way of working out.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Montenegrin journalists looked on wide-eyed as Bellamy used a pre-match news conference in Podgorica in 2024 to talk about Yugoslavia's Under-21s of 1990 as much as Wales' Nations League match there the following day.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
When the chef left his war-torn homeland in 2015, he never imagined that one day he would watch as cameras flashed and wide-eyed crowds greeted the monarch arriving at his Soho restaurant last year.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
On the subject of AI replacing heretofore normal human activities, Mr. Amodei, born in 1983, writes with the wide-eyed wonder of a high-school-aged techno-utopian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Reverent and wide-eyed with curiosity, the rest tiptoed into Lady Constance’s bedchamber.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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