as in watchful
having unusually keen vision
a very sharp-eyed child found the last Easter egg, which was hidden in the flower arrangement
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Recent Examples of sharp-eyed
Wojtak-Hissong will play Danny Keenan, a restless, sharp-eyed Hell’s Kitchen teenager and Officer Keenan’s son, an errand boy for the Westies despite his father’s disapproval.
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Judge Paul Hollywood has been a mainstay since the very beginning, offering his signature handshakes and sharp-eyed critiques.
—Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
With a master’s thesis on women’s art collectives and a passion for practices that explore identity, history, and community, Lyon has become a sharp-eyed supporter of artists whose stories deserve a global stage.
—Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
To create a better trigger system, which saves as much good data as possible while getting rid of low-quality data, researchers want to train a sharp-eyed algorithm to sort better than one that’s hard coded.
—Dan Garisto, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2022
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Judge Paul Hollywood has been a mainstay since the very beginning, offering his signature handshakes and sharp-eyed critiques.
—Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
With a master’s thesis on women’s art collectives and a passion for practices that explore identity, history, and community, Lyon has become a sharp-eyed supporter of artists whose stories deserve a global stage.
—Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
To create a better trigger system, which saves as much good data as possible while getting rid of low-quality data, researchers want to train a sharp-eyed algorithm to sort better than one that’s hard coded.
—Dan Garisto, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharp-eyed
Adjective
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But the senior royals of today still keep a watchful eye on their guests.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Sign-toting protesters walked down Colorado Boulevard under the watchful eye of Pasadena police officers on motorcycles.—
Staff And Wire Reports,
Daily News,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Arriving for the Enthronement Ceremony to install Dame Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury this afternoon, the Princess carried a classic Chanel flap bag, which, for the eagle-eyed onlooker, appeared pre-crumpled.—
Olivia Allen,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2026
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Throughout the film’s press tour, eagle-eyed fans have noticed that Zendaya has been sporting both her engagement ring and a gold wedding band, fueling further speculation about whether her actual wedding to Holland has taken place.—
Rebecca Keegan,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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There’s also great moments of observant satire in the webs of attraction, class, and power that are carried over from the workplace.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Action is character, and this is a character study paced somewhere between observant and Safdie-level panic attack.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2026
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