eye-opening
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“It’s really eye-opening to be myself entirely and have people appreciate it,” he notes.
From Los Angeles Times
The experience can be life-changing, Mistal said, and eye-opening, especially when they return.
From MarketWatch
Interviews with over a dozen students who had taken its classes were overwhelmingly positive; they described SCiLL’s offerings as “freeing,” “eye-opening,” “challenging” and “stimulating.”
And yet, “there are several eye-opening charts from areas that have seen huge moves—either up or down—of late,” writes Frank Cappelleri, founder of the technical-analysis research shop CappThesis.
From Barron's
"Seeing all the steps you need to get through and the cost and the evidence you need to produce to bring that to patients has been really eye-opening, but there's still a risk it'll never see the light of day."
From BBC
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