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Recent Examples of clear-eyed Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance. Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025 Sanchez is also clear-eyed about his need to sacrifice. Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 23 June 2025 Her hospital self is closer to her true spirit, with its bottom of mortal fatigue and clear-eyed nihilism. Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025 Seed, who followed her parents’ career paths as a photographer, also discovered a trove of her mother’s own photographs, revealing a distinctive, clear-eyed aesthetic and a nomadic itch. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for clear-eyed
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Adjective
  • She’s got that great State Farm commercial where everything’s better from the logo – terrific ad, very smart.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • The lead character is the prince, who doesn’t want to be on the throne and is not really that smart.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • As many of our astute commenters guessed, between the peeing on himself and the trouble getting it up, Harry Goldenblatt has prostate cancer.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • An astute and compassionate portrait of sisterhood, flaws and all, the dynamics between the characters are sublime.
    Fran Littlewood June 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • In its pleasantly complicated world-building, the series manages to be a shrewd political thriller, a cracking adventure, and a haunting religious allegory rolled into one.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • Beyond long-running The Lawrence Welk Show, which debuted on ABC on this day in 1955, Welk was a bandleader, an accordion player, and a shrewd businessman synonymous with squeaky-clean (and older-skewing) entertainment.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has publicly stated that recent U.S. and Israeli airstrikes inflicted serious damage on Iran's nuclear sites, a sharp contrast to the downplaying by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and one early U.S. intelligence assessment that was leaked to media.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • Its exterior is an awkward mashup of new and old ideas—the sharp roofline and giant windscreen give off the impression the car has been crushed—though its dual-color paint job and full-width headlights really work.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 June 2025

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“Clear-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clear-eyed. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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