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Add to it pulsing strobe lights and floppy, oversized, mouthless cyclopes and you have all the makings of a nightmare trip.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

Later, other cyclopes deal with being perceived as overly submissive, the lack of cyclops representation in Hollywood movies, and worries about whether mixed children will have one eye or two.

From New York Times • May 5, 2021

This articulate writing is a relief after all the talk about cyclopes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2020

Equatorial Guinea's history is so tragic that many witnesses, executioners and victims pretend to be cyclopes to avoid looking at each other closely.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2012

The Greeks were, unwittingly, very near an anatomical truth when they ascribed to certain monsters, called cyclopes, only one eye apiece, which was placed in the centre of their foreheads.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James