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Argus-eyed

American  
[ahr-guhs-ahyd] / ˈɑr gəsˌaɪd /

adjective

  1. having keen eyes; vigilant; watchful.


Argus-eyed British  

adjective

  1. keen-sighted; observant; vigilant

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It is a transfixing beast, Argus-eyed and monolithic, pulsing with durable Kraftwerk beats, a monument to agitated awe.

From The New Yorker Dec. 10, 2019

But Pan Am, grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run.

From Time Magazine Archive

That turnest into pain thy father's joys, To evil Argus-eyed, but blind as mole to good.

From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Williams, L.

Have there not been a thousand such, and has any one of them had the slightest chance against systems in possession,—against the strongly rooted prejudices of ignorance and the Argus-eyed investigations of scepticism?

From Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) by Rogers, Henry

And that was the question that stared, Argus-eyed, at Jane Blair.

From The Innocent Adventuress by Bradley, Mary Hastings

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