eyeshade
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eyeshades
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noun
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If I have to take an overnight flight again, I think I can get through it with the right mask and eyeshade.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
On the way home, I stopped in New York to present these possibilities to William Shawn, to whom I have alluded as The New Yorker’s supreme eyeshade.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
“Think of Bob Cratchit with the green eyeshade - somebody had to sit there and slug it out,” said Hurford.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2017
“Fixing the economy doesn’t mean just taking a green eyeshade approach to the budget. Our government isn’t just about numbers. A strong, healthy economy allows us to protect our most vulnerable,” he says.
From Time ● Jan. 24, 2017
Dora pushed the eyeshade back up on her head and she put the pen in an old-fashioned coil-spring holder.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Her own mortality was not top of mind when she slipped on her eyeshades and began taking heaving breaths at the October workshop, her first time trying holotropic breathwork.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
Nevertheless, all players except goalies wear eyeshades to ensure uniform blindness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
In Birmingham, Truss took off the green eyeshades: “Low growth isn’t just numbers on a spreadsheet.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022
This is the vision-impaired category, so they’re all wearing eyeshades and being accompanied out by an Olympic volunteer.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2021
He got used to shutting out the noise and danger; at night, on the base in Iraq, he’d pull on eyeshades and his headphones and listen to classic rock.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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