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artificial eye

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noun

  1. a manufactured eye of glass, plastic, or other material, usually hemispherical or cup-shaped, worn cosmetically over a blind eye or in the socket of a lost eye and sometimes attached to muscles to provide movement.

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I don’t know what to do with it for the artificial eye.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Earlier versions of artificial eye devices required external power sources and cables that extended outside the eye.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

He lost his eye so he has an artificial eye.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2021

These are the moments that give His Dark Materials its ballast, that keep it from floating off into a fantasia of artificial eye candy.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2019

M. Boissonneau of Paris, constructs eyes with such extraordinary precision, that the artificial eye, we are told, is not distinguishable from the natural eye.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

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