hawk-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
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having extremely keen sight
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vigilant, watchful, or observant
hawk-eyed scrutiny
Etymology
Origin of hawk-eyed
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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Supervising the proceedings were stern-faced male and female guards with the hawk-eyed looks of chaperones at a high school dance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2022
Of course now their alleged ruse appears to have been rumbled by a hawk-eyed reporter from The Athletic, they might not chance it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2022
Holmes's real-life model was Doyle's professor, hawk-eyed diagnostician Joseph Bell; writers from Émile Gaboriau to Edgar Allen Poe offered fictional prototypes.
From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017
“I certainly don’t see myself as the hawk-eyed, sharp-nosed, hard military man, leading a battle fleet into the annals of history,” Admiral Woodward told the BBC when he went to war.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2013
Rahel watched hawk-eyed to try and gauge how much Ammu loved Sophie Mol, but couldn’t.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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