eagle-eyed

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The less eagle-eyed cinemagoer might think the film mainly concerns the sinking of a giant ship.

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  1. Sharp-sighted, like an eagle.
  2. Quick to discern; having acute intellectual vision. I know the frailty of my fleshly will: My passion's eagle-ey'd. Quarles, Emblems, iv. 1. To be curious and Eagle-eyed Abroad, and to be Blind and ignorant at Home, … is a Curiosity that carrieth with it more of Affectation than any thing else. Howell, Letters, ii. 55.

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  • Unfortunately for 30-year-old Findlay, an eagle-eyed women spotted him driving off the building site and raised the alarm. —  icLanarkshire
  • But eagle-eyed immigration officials at East Midlands Airport, using the latest biometric tests, discovered he was linked to an incident here last November. —  Latest Articles
  • However, eagle-eyed collectors knew better and a bidding war pushed the price to about —  CBC | Top Stories News
  • The eagle-eyed among you may spot that this week's picture of 10 bricks is from the archive, because the cupboard is bare. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • To the first eagle-eyed discoverer, police said it was "first one" they'd ever seen. —  BuzzFeed - Latest
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