on sight
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When the trees of the Singer Tract were at last clear-cut beginning in 1937, however, the wolves it had harbored were shot on sight, as they were when the leases of other refuges expired.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
"Operators do a lot of caramel testing, just on sight and on feel. So basically, they walk up to the caramel and just give it a squeeze."
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
Black folks, and Black women especially, recognized certain homages on sight: the recurring suggestions of Yoruba deities, the purposeful insertion of certain Black stars in specific scenes, the tributes to mothers living and ancestral.
From Salon • May 2, 2025
In New York they proved to be such a problem that officials encouraged residents to kill them on sight.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2024
I stood trembling, afraid that they would ask me to join but angry that so many rejected me on sight.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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