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Examples of lazy eye in a Sentence
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However, during a college internship at CBS News, an industry veteran discouraged him, saying Cohen’s lazy eye would be a problem.
—Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
His approach to embodying a crusty character with a peculiar physical trait — a lazy eye — brings depth to an already compelling portrayal of a demanding teacher.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
The injections are also used to treat medical conditions such as neck spasms, sweating, overactive bladder, lazy eye and migraines.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
Angela Bettis gives one of the best horror performances of the decade as the title character, a deeply lonely veterinary assistant and amateur taxidermist with a lazy eye and no friends who loses her already tenuous grip on reality after experiencing one too many romantic rejections.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
Ketamine is good for a lazy eye.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
In amblyopic patients, the brain begins to turn off its connection to the lazy eye favoring the stronger one.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021
In some children, lazy eye can be caused by a combination of these problems.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021
Amblyopia -- also known as lazy eye -- is a childhood disorder where nerve pathways between the brain and an eye aren't properly stimulated, so the brain favors one eye.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near lazy eye
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“Lazy eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lazy%20eye. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
lazy eye
noun
: amblyopia
also
: an eye affected with amblyopia
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