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
His ever-glowering face on the sideline has sparked countless memes and has come to personify the sharp-eyed, no-nonsense manner in which these Hoosiers have rocketed through the sport in just two seasons.
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Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
Rosalia, by now, has proven herself to be pop’s most provocative chaos agent, having released radical projects like El Mal Querer, which played with flamenco traditions and pop genres, and Motomami, an exploration of femininity through sharp-eyed production and reggaeton beats.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 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
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Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
Rosalia, by now, has proven herself to be pop’s most provocative chaos agent, having released radical projects like El Mal Querer, which played with flamenco traditions and pop genres, and Motomami, an exploration of femininity through sharp-eyed production and reggaeton beats.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharp-eyed
Adjective
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Now a mother of two, Diana spent much of the celebration in 1985 holding Harry while keeping a watchful eye on her eldest son.—
Elle Meier,
InStyle,
13 June 2026
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In either case, the meteors literally bring their far-distant, otherwise-inaccessible parent bodies down to Earth, where watchful scientists can better study them.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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As pointed out by eagle-eyed fans, the singer, 32, and actress, 37, appear to have matching tattoos.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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The outfit looked familiar to eagle-eyed fans, who clocked that Zendaya had shared a throwback photo of herself wearing what appeared to be the same look six years ago.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
Adjective
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In conversation and on the page, Hockney was a witty, observant, and often contrarian scholar of art, offering exuberant opinions on the likes of Turner, Constable, Ingres, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Bacon, and Warhol.—
Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
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Igby Rigney stars as Bret, an aspiring writer and keenly observant teenager whose reality begins to unravel with the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic new student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), per the official logline.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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How could this high-energy tissue survive, let alone perform at the level observed in sharp-sighted bird species, without oxygen?—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
13 May 2026
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