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  • adjective Attributive form of contact lens, noun.

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Examples

  • Just like in that fabled five-parter, Torchwood finds its country by looking at humanity through a camera contact-lens, darkly.

    Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode five 2011

  • Examples: contact-lens solution and breast-feeding equipment qualify; health-club memberships usually don't.

    Write Off Your Job Hunt! Laura Saunders 2011

  • Before his Senate victory last year, Mr. Lee, a tea-party favorite, was an attorney for 1-800 Contacts, an online contact-lens retailer in Utah that clashed with Google in court.

    Google Girds for a Grilling Thomas Catan 2011

  • Dear Heloise: When traveling for long weekends or four - or five-day trips, instead of packing jars of day and night face creams, I transfer each into contact-lens holders -- day cream in right side, night in left.

    Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010

  • Bausch & Lomb Inc. 's contact-lens solution Renu with MoistureLoc was removed from the world market in 2006 after being linked to cases of fungal eye infection that can cause blindness.

    Some Doctors Question New Cancer Treatment Thomas M. Burton 2010

  • Then again, once a family has passed the hurdle, many other medical expenses are deductible—including contact-lens solution and birth-control pills, as well as out-of-pocket health-insurance premiums.

    Special Tax Deductions for Special Education Laura Saunders 2011

  • With basic image processing and Internet access, a contact-lens display could unlock whole new worlds of visual information, unfettered by the constraints of a physical display.

    Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your Eye with a Screen of 100s of LEDs | Inhabitat 2010

  • The two sizes, gallon and quart, can hold everything from contact-lens solution to wet swimsuits to snacks.

    New on the Travel Scene Sara Clemence 2011

  • But FSA funds may still be used for other, nonprescription medical items such as crutches, contact-lens solution or a wig after chemotherapy, if the individual plan allows it, notes Melissa Labant of the AICPA.

    Tax Changes For 2011: A Checklist Laura Saunders 2011

  • The sudden, random abduction of Gwen's family by a shadowy force behind the contact-lens cameras gave us a chance to forget about the whole "Miracle" thing completely and just do a character piece between Jack and Gwen.

    Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode seven 2011

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