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eye-catching

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adjective

  1. tending to attract attention; striking

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The wish-granting branch packaged in an eye-catching box is flanked by framed photos of “Obsession,” the small-scale horror film turned global box-office smash to which it is central.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ms. Proske, best known in New York as co-founder of the unorthodox Heartbeat Opera, directed the intimate scenes as tight close-ups, and her many eye-catching moments, whether stage-filling or small-scale, were always purposeful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

American fashion designer Bob Mackie, whose eye-catching dresses were worn by Cher, Tina Turner, Sabrina Carpenter and countless others in Hollywood's glitterati, died Monday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Some of them are eye-catching, I notice, even though they're wearing those same hideous shorts and T-shirts.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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