lazy eye
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lazy eye
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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Children with a lazy eye are being increasingly missed for treatment, experts say, in areas where early screenings are not available in schools.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
The injections are also used to treat medical conditions such as neck spasms, sweating, overactive bladder, lazy eye and migraines.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
The FDA approved two VR-based therapeutics this fall: one that treats lazy eye in children and a second for chronic pain.
From The Verge • Jan. 26, 2022
In “Heaven,” she focuses on the friendship between two outcasts at school: a boy with a lazy eye and a female classmate who’s been relentlessly bullied.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2021
He noticed that when I talked to people I squinched my lazy eye kind of shut or that I’d put my hand on my face to cover it.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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