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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

Hence desperate efforts were made to deter him—efforts which did not escape the Argus-eyed Walsingham.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

But Madame Boulanger was not Argus-eyed, and thus we often saw Madame Leroy escape through the front door and roll like a huge balloon along the boulevard, bent on what she called "collecting her rents."

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

No doubt the proof-room Argus-eyed Approves the “style” of nation-wide.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston

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