as in watchful
having unusually keen vision a very sharp-eyed child found the last Easter egg, which was hidden in the flower arrangement

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Recent Examples of sharp-eyed On July 15, one sharp-eyed poster, @boners, noticed that Apple TV+ seems to have an unusual affection for a particular letter of the alphabet. Vulture Staff, Vulture, 15 July 2025 But a few sharp-eyed fans watching the sequence, which featured Elisabeth Moss‘ June and her fellow handmaids on the warpath to destroy Gilead, thought Swift had even more influence on the scene. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 May 2025 By June, Profar’s hot start was eliciting high praise from sharp-eyed Merv Rettenmund, who’d gone to seven World Series as an outfielder or hitting coach. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025 In this new struggle, as sharp-eyed militants understood, firmness of tread counted a great deal more than radicalism of demand. Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sharp-eyed
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  • Reuters — American golfer Vince Whaley had a particularly nerve-wracking encounter with a big-toothed onlooker at the Sanderson Farms Championship on Sunday, as he was forced to play a shot under the watchful gaze of a lurking alligator.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The show follows Ed Gein (Charlie Hunnam), an unassuming and odd man, working his family’s farm under the watchful eye of his hateful and vicious mother, Augusta (Laurie Metcalf).
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • But eagle-eyed viewers noticed some spots during Week 1 that bucked bro-centric convention.
    Jennifer Halper, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The track has resurfaced into cultural conversation in recent years, after eagle-eyed social media users unearthed the mistake before the Reddit community, TikTok users, and meme creators gleefully dissected the scene.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • Not everyone in the crowd is equally observant.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In 2008, a constitutional amendment stripped the Grand Duke of his political role, after Guillaume’s father Henri refused to ratify the government’s vote allowing euthanasia; the royals are observant Catholics.
    Vivienne Walt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Sharp-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharp-eyed. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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