variants also vizor
as in brim
the projecting front part of a hat or cap the visor on your baseball cap should provide adequate shade for your eyes

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Recent Examples of visor At the same time, responsible usage could actually offer a driver’s field of view that traditional visors obstruct. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025 If Neel didn’t have blue skin and an elephant-like trunk, and if KB didn’t wear a Geordi LaForge-looking cybernetic visor, and if their school wasn’t partially staffed by droids, most of the early scenes could actually take place on contemporary earth. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024 Tiny first-person-view drones, weighing just a few pounds and controlled remotely by a human operator wearing a visor displaying the drone’s front-facing camera feed, can get close enough—and can also squeeze into tight spaces. David Axe, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025 The visor is also specifically positioned for maximizing airflow without compromising protection, and the liner is removable for washing and odor management. Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for visor
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Noun
  • Underneath the wide brim of his tan cowboy hat, there is a bit of a playful flicker in his eyes at all times.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2025
  • My favorites tend to possess a large brim that falls in gentle folds around my face, covering my now shorter and remorselessly thinning hair and quite sensitively shadowing the varied assaults of time on my complexion.
    Judith Viorst, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The ornate design will look great will all your suitcase mainstays, plus shoppers have their choice of seven springy shades, from red to sage green.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Keep reading to learn about the four main paint shades that pros would rather not see in a hallway, and why.
    Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the bills have changed the rhetorical landscape.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But these days the church is in disrepair and has been closed for two years because the gas bill could not be paid and the heat turned off.
    Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Economic news Consumer sentiment was at the lowest since 2022, which marked the peak of the post-pandemic inflation spike, in the second April reading from the University of Michigan.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Consumer sentiment nosedived in April to the lowest level since the peak of the postpandemic inflation surge as President Trump’s trade battles shake the global economy.
    Tobias Burns, The Hill, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Visor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visor. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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