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
Otherwise, he says, "at 4.30 or 5am I wake up and I'm wide-eyed like a bat".
From BBC • Mar. 26, 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
It clattered to the floor, startling Cecilia, who turned around to look at the mess with wide-eyed amazement.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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