lens
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Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady’s new Prime Video animated sitcom, “#1 Happy Family USA,” looks at 9/11 through a Muslim American kid’s lens.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
In her book, she used her story as a lens to examine the conditions that allow misconduct and abuses of power to flourish.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
When Mr. Haskell turns his lens on seagrass flowers, we glimpse organisms marvelously adapted to their watery environment, petals miniaturized into “scalelike shields,” with fruit and seeds protected as if in a bathyscape.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
It is a remarkable turnaround for a South Asian country long seen internationally through a security lens, as it battled armed extremists and separatists at home while being accused of supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
I tilt up my camera lens and focus it.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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