How to Use optic in a Sentence

optic

1 of 2 adjective

• Few places in the country were as down-and-out—and even fewer had fibre-optic service to the home.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• The fiber optic cable broke during one dive and had to be respliced.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• There are many causes of this kind of optic-nerve injury.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• It’s not a stretch to say that FN’s optic system is likely the best plate system in the business.
  — Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 25 Jan. 2021
• When the network was built, it was packed with far more fiber optic cable than was needed at the time.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
• In opposition to an optic tasting method — by mouth and head, but what about the rest of you?
  — Susan H. Gordon, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• In time, their nervous systems began building optic nerves to connect the new eyes to the brain by way of the spinal cord.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• The disease impacts the central nervous system—the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.
  — Jenna Schnuer, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• There was damage to his optic nerves and a broken right tibia.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 5 June 2021
• Snag it in both optic white and true black to maximize your styling options.
  — Marissa Miller, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
• The site already has rail, electric and fiber optic access.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2022
• They will be targeted to kill the cancer cells while keeping the healthy tissues, the optic nerves nearby, the brain, safe.
  — Mykal McEldowney, Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2020
• His eyebrows look groomed and his teeth are optic white and very straight, but his face doesn’t register as a rich guy’s.
  — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• Those who want to spend a little time communing with the work can take a seat on a cube topped with fiber optic terrazo tile.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
• But a petabit is one million gigabits, so the advances the optic chip offers are clear.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Oct. 2022
• For a colonoscopy, patients are given a sedative and are asleep for the procedure, where a tiny fiber optic camera is placed in the colon.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
• But while rural fiber optic networks have spread swiftly over the past five years, their progress has been uneven.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2020
• Moreover, the link will not require more than one hop through the optic photonic network.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The fiber optic wire would connect all the access points as well as about 55 security cameras placed throughout the park, the bridge and places on the West Side across from the park.
  — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• With a fiber-optic front bead and a rear peep sight, as well as a rail for mounting an optic, this new 870 promises to be a terrific choice.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 29 Jan. 2020
• During the night, the journalist, then 52, had suffered a rare kind of stroke that ravaged one of his optic nerves and left him with a thick fog across the right side of his vision.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• In their cases, Botox can feel like a miracle cure for many symptoms, a result of myelin damage in the brain, spine, and even optic nerves.
  — ELLE, 28 Oct. 2022
• Researchers used a laser beam and fiber optic cable to connect the three clocks and compare their measurements.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
• This isn't the first time Google Fiber has collaborated with a city to create a fiber optic network.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 7 July 2020
• That’s not to say that doctors are going to be sticking optic fibers into the human brain anytime soon.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021
• But unlike the earlier equipment, these were tethered to the ship by a thin, miles-long fiber optic cable that could be unspooled as the drone traveled to the seafloor.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• And indeed, when shooting rapid-fire shot strings, the pistol’s front fiber-optic bead sight snaps back into view quickly.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2020
• Vortex adds a ton of value to this setup by including the rangefinder pouch and a bonus neck strap for your optic standard.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• Instead, opt for a matching stretchy set from Rodarte, Prada, or Burberry, and let your curves—and these optic prints—do the talking.
  — Vogue, 12 Sep. 2021
• Another aspect of the improvements will be the running of fiber optic cable the length of I-565 to support the video cameras and message boards.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2021

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optic

2 of 2 noun

• For goodness sake, the optics are not good for these folks.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
• But if nothing else, the optics have not been good for Ms. Willis’s team.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Add a lightweight optic to the rail and this survival gun is ready to go.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 21 Mar. 2023
• But in the meantime, there is no denying that the optics here are pretty bad!
  — Condé Nast, SELF, 6 Nov. 2023
• There’s no way to deny how bad the optics were for Levis on Thursday night during the first round.
  — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 29 Apr. 2023
• But optics aside, Cyrus has one of the most distinct timbres in pop music.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2023
• Now there are optics in the standings that are less than desirable.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
• The optics are clear: Democrats want to forgive your student loans; Republicans are willing to go all the way to the Supreme Court to stop them.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
• The league knew the practice was bad optics and owners decided to address the issue.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
• Title 8 may be an attempt to achieve the same result with better optics.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2023
• To not care about optics and instead invest in honesty.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2024
• The grandiose optics, as well as the leaders’ matching red ties, delivered a clear message: a new, strong, united front against the West.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• The optics are not good Matt: Another rhetorical sleight of hand.
  — Adam Feuerstein and Matthew Herper, STAT, 31 July 2023
• But Wolf’s team, armed with a satellite hookup and a thermal optic that can see a person up to five miles away, quickly showed how much war had changed in the last 80 years.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• During the dot-com boom 20 years ago, building a bunch of fiber-optic cable was a great idea until everybody else had the same idea.
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• As the turkey kept gobbling, Bunn threw his hat and began shouting at his friend, who was looking through the optic on his shotgun.
  — Russell Worth Parker, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2023
• Is Dillane worried about the optics of opening this mega fashion space in the neighborhood?
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
• And some satellites have very sensitive optics on them.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
• Nonetheless, its optics are sound and its focus speed is quick enough to keep up with the latest camera bodies.
  — PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
• Equipped with a hooded ramp front sight with a brass bead and an adjustable semi-buckhorn rear sight, the gun is also drilled and tapped for mounting an optic.
  — Michael Dickerson, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2023
• While board members do not play a role in bank supervision, the optics of the situation are bad.
  — Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Vortex clearly did a lot of testing to make something that protects an optic, but isn’t going to spook that buck or bull of a lifetime.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• Might the optics of Drake’s return to the Grammys stage — and the message that would send to younger rappers unsure whether the Grammys matter — be reason for voters to go his way?
  — Mikael Wood, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
• Much of the boost comes from better optics that reduce stray light and internal reflections.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The optics of all this are horrendous, even if Binance—unlike FTX—didn’t lose any of its customers’ money.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 6 June 2023
• The optics spoke of shoulder-to-shoulder Western unity against Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2023
• There hasn’t been a major leak on the optics front, but the Galaxy Z Flip 5 is supposedly getting a camera upgrade.
  — Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The grant was for providing fiber-optic cable to about 20 villages in the Interior from Fairbanks.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2022
• The specific matchups, Bochy said, didn’t factor into the rotation schedule as much as the optics may appear.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
• Whether Willis’s relationship with Wade amounts to a violation of ethics or of the law—or merely to bad optics—the right-wing media has seized on the story.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024