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eye-catching

British  

adjective

  1. tending to attract attention; striking

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In some sense she played a character called “Ma Rainey,” one who stunned with eye-catching beads and her dress and demeanor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Take the agency’s recent eye-catching adjustment to U.S. beef-export sales, which were slashed by over 90% from an originally reported weekly figure for late June, citing a reporting error.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

That earlier book floated an eye-catching thesis that Mr. Mandelbaum now fleshes out fully: that U.S. foreign policy is, indeed, distinctive, being “unusually ideological, unusually economic, and unusually democratic.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Rutte is keen to get Trump -- known for his love of an eye-catching deal -- to personally oversee the business bonanza.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 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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