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Recent Examples of contact lens
All of this has prompted Jana Partners to announce a top portfolio position in Cooper and plans to push for strategic alternatives, including a potential transaction to combine its contact lens unit with peers such as Bausch + Lomb.
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
The thin, flexible material, similar to a contact lens, can be placed directly on the heart during surgery.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
About 90% of Acanthamoeba keratitis cases occur in contact lens wearers, says Dr. Saba Al-Hashimi, an assistant professor of ophthalmology in the cornea division at UCLA’s Stein Eye Institute.
—Holly Burns, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
There are kids that want contact lenses, and there’s some that don’t want to touch a contact lens.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
The thin, flexible material, similar to a contact lens, can be placed directly on the heart during surgery.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
About 90% of Acanthamoeba keratitis cases occur in contact lens wearers, says Dr. Saba Al-Hashimi, an assistant professor of ophthalmology in the cornea division at UCLA’s Stein Eye Institute.
—Holly Burns, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
There are kids that want contact lenses, and there’s some that don’t want to touch a contact lens.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contact lens
Noun
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For several years now, Netflix has been on the hunt for live sporting events and spectacles to beam to its 325 million global subscribers.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
27 Jan. 2026
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It’s become largely focussed on creating spectacles, such as the No Kings protests, that can mobilize large numbers of people at breakneck speed to march, sign petitions, and contribute money.—
Charles Duhigg,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Strolling past glass display cases of fossils and earthenware artifacts, my eyes landed on a rack by the main entrance with flyers advertising children’s events and local flea markets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an opulent neoclassical rotunda in the historic Steinway Hall.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Contact lens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contact%20lens. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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