How to Use optics in a Sentence

optics

plural noun

• And the last thing the Mets need in year two of the Cohen era is more bad optics.
  — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• The optics were not a good look for the older white co-host.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• The event was a huge success not just for the racing, but for the optics.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• There is also the bad optics of heading to the team that just beat him in the playoffs.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• In choosing her as a stylist, the optics for Harris look good in many ways.
  — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2021
• But in retrospect, the optics of that move look bad for the Lions.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
• But Love convinces Theo that the optics-wise thing to do is go and promises to go with him.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• That said, the glitch made for pretty bad optics since Kaluuya was the first Black winner of the evening.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2021
• The optics aren’t great, but the park promises that its water is filtered and reused.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• The agency even went so far as to keep the optics cleaner than needed while on Earth.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
• But the optics, with Woods at the peak of his fame, were clearly valuable to Federer.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Schroeder said that while there was nothing wrong with the way the alternate was picked, the optics looked bad.
  — Amy Forliti, Gene Johnson and Todd Richmond, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
• The optics that some people saw with our line did not translate to what went on inside.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2020
• The optics of finishing fourth or fifth in the conference aren’t good.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2022
• But in terms of broader messaging, the optics don’t look good.
  — Tom Fairless, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
• But the optics should have been the Afghan government being there and the Taliban being there in an equal way.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
• The optics could not have been worse for a Games — and a host — trying desperately to put on their best face.
  — David Wharton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
• Not only are the optics great, but the company has one of the best warranty policies in the game.
  — Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
• No one knows but the optics from that moment probably isn’t good for Jones.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2021
• The optics might be strange if a team competes with only five players.
  — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• So far, the men who have underwritten these flights seem aware of these optics.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
• The Flip is using digital zoom while the Fold and the S22+ are relying on their optics.
  — PCMAG, 11 Aug. 2022
• Even if Compass had prevailed, the optics of the row was terrible.
  — Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
• This features multi-coated optics that are sure to last for a long time.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 31 Mar. 2021
• She has been released on bond, but the optics were terrible.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
• Even journalists took issue with the optics of the Bidens’ visit.
  — Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2021
• The optics along racial and gender lines were not lost on Bottoms, leader of a city thought of by many as the heart of Black America.
  — Christian Cody, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2020
• To connect your binoculars, install a metal quick disconnect (QD) pin to the standard quarter-inch socket found in the front of the frame pivot on most optics.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2020
• Concerns over ‘optics’ contributed to the National Guard delay.
  — Stephanie Lai, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024