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as in presence
a position within view get out of my sight!

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as in glance
an instance of looking especially briefly he always fainted at the merest sight of blood

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as in mess
something unpleasant to look at the frat house was a sight the morning after the party

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Recent Examples of sight
Noun
And perhaps most painfully, there were no olives in sight. Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025 Some believe that Bama will be on a serious mission now with the CFP in sight. Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
Pasquatch sighting in Cleveland! Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025 From locations that are plagued by light pollution, sighting this comet may prove to be rather difficult. Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sight
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Noun
  • Present-day Michigan is the ancestral homeland of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi, Anishinaabe peoples forming the historic Council of Three Fires alliance, with the Indigenous presence pre-dating European settlements by more than 10,000 years.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • McDaniel, however, would neither confirm nor deny his presence.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Preparing for Thanksgiving means adhering to a schedule that seems deceivingly simple at first glance, but instead can harbor sneaky disasters at every turn.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Taltos First introduced in 1990's The Witching Hour and given prime focus in Taltos four years later, the taltos are a species that, on first glance, look human, but are usually taller, thinner, and have bones mostly made of cartilage.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Second shift is a real mess after a blackout strikes the area, forcing Robert (by way of the player) to hack into the city’s electric grid and turn the lights back on one section at a time.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For larger messes, the stain-resistant rug is also machine-washable for quick and hassle-free maintenance.
    Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • There were entire generations of people who simply had to live with their poor eyesight, making vision impairment a palpable issue for huge swaths of the population.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Proactive care can make a tremendous difference in preserving eyesight.
    Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But, at a moment when big narrative audio studios are shuttering, loads of people are being laid off and fewer documentary series are being made, this sentence really struck a nerve in the industry of folks who produce, write, edit and sound design longform narrative audio.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That could mean co-locating with renewables, using batteries to extend solar availability, or making data centers flexible enough to shift heavy compute loads to periods of abundant clean power.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Teams that set meeting windows, encourage short breaks, and support ergonomic basics may notice steadier output and fewer end-of-week slumps, especially when people adjust lighting, seat height, and screen distance to reduce eye strain.
    Jason Phillips, IndyStar, 11 Nov. 2025
  • And when his hospital finally reopened, in February of the following year, doctors began noticing unexpected changes.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • There’s not much Fisher Robay in this episode; outside a brief glimpse of Ron overseeing the progress on the mall development, there’s only one scene set at work.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This bilingual edition preserves Vilariño’s rhythmic precision and existential intensity, giving readers a rare glimpse into a body of work that continues to resonate far beyond its origins.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
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  • Audiences just can’t get enough of films that offer frights and scares, or even family-friendly flicks that pay homage to spooky season.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Horror anthologies are a tradition in British cinema, and this collection of bite-sized frights is the granddaddy of them all.
    Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Sight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sight. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.

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