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Adjective
In a search of the apartment, police recovered a Glock 19 Gen 5 firearm with an optic sight attached.—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 19 June 2025 Final Thoughts Sigma 300-600mm F4 DG OS Sports 4.0
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The Sigma 300-600mm F4 DG OS Sports is an ambitious effort from one of the best optic houses in the business.—PC Magazine, 19 May 2025
Noun
Profiting from inside information regarding the likelihood of legislation passing is ugly enough—when that inside information is about millions of individuals losing access to Medicare, the optics are somehow even worse....—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025 But the substance is never the point with Trump; the optics are.—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for optic
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Middle English, from Medieval Latin opticus, from Greek optikos, from opsesthai to be going to see; akin to Greek opsis appearance, ōps eye — more at eye
Middle English optic "relating to the eye," from Latin opticus (same meaning), from Greek optikos (same meaning), from opsesthai "to be going to see" — related to autopsy
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