as in watchful
having unusually keen vision
my eagle-eyed aunt quickly spotted my contact lens on the floor
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Adjective
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The official synopsis for the season, as per Hulu, reads: Glamorous singles live in a beautiful villa under the watchful gaze of the audience at home, who have the power to decide who stays and who goes.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025 -
Though the maneuver took place under the watchful gaze of ground control, the satellites aligned and maintained their relative positions, down to a single millimeter, autonomously.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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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
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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
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His son, more attentive than him, more observant than even his wife.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
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Carmichael is an entertaining and observant narrator of his own story, and, ultimately, even jokes about Pop-Tarts or Donald Trump or blowjobs are suggestive reflections of the comedian who tells them.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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“Eagle-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eagle-eyed. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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