: having sight
clear-sighted
a sighted person
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Construction trailers have been sighted, and there are permits for an unidentified 150,000-square-foot building near the park’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter area.
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Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet—perhaps the most famous story of passionate love and tribal destruction ever written—offers a particularly stark mirror for modern organizations plagued by internal feuds, siloed departments, legacy rivalries, and short-sighted leadership.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026
Another was seen off the coast of Bahia in Brazil before being sighted 22 years later in Hervey Bay, Australia, about 9,383 miles away, according to the study published in Royal Society Open Science.
—CBS News, 20 May 2026
The moves were senseless, short-sighted and emblematic of everything wrong with professional sports in this day and age.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
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Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet—perhaps the most famous story of passionate love and tribal destruction ever written—offers a particularly stark mirror for modern organizations plagued by internal feuds, siloed departments, legacy rivalries, and short-sighted leadership.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026
Another was seen off the coast of Bahia in Brazil before being sighted 22 years later in Hervey Bay, Australia, about 9,383 miles away, according to the study published in Royal Society Open Science.
—CBS News, 20 May 2026
The moves were senseless, short-sighted and emblematic of everything wrong with professional sports in this day and age.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
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“Sighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sighted. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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sighted
adjective
sight·ed
ˈsīt-əd 
: having sight
clear-sighted
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