as in watchful
having unusually keen vision
the lynx-eyed copy editor never seemed to miss an error in the reporters' work
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Adjective
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During construction, the Feins purchased the house next door and lived there, keeping a watchful eye on the work.—
Sara B. Hansen,
Denver Post,
2 May 2026 -
Viktor Arvidsson, who was knocked woozy and out of the lineup on a high hit from the Sabres’ Mattias Samuelsson in Game 4, was skating under the watchful eye of skating and skills coach John McLean at Warrior Ice Arena on Friday morning.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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Young staffers on liberal political campaigns often display the slightly censorious cheerfulness of a resident-hall adviser, but the Warren organizers possessed a hawkeyed attention to detail and the essential American energy of malaria eradicators.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2020
Adjective
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So Mom clears them out, taking them to a nearby nature preserve and natural-history museum, where the sharp-eyed Sasha notices the teen-age Jeremy stealing a souvenir keychain from a rotating rack.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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That moment required sharp-eyed expertise — a scientist looking at an image of a living animal and connecting it, across years and continents, to fossils described by a colleague from teeth found in the ground.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
9 Mar. 2026
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Regardless of the power train, Missoni says that each new 7 Series looks the same, with the difference between model variants only noticeable to the most eagle-eyed of observers.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
24 Apr. 2026
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Not long after that, some eagle-eyed fans spotted a Leyndell Knight walking around the Greenwich Naval College in South London.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Lynx-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lynx-eyed. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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