First recorded in 1925–30; from Seeing Eye, a trademark of The Seeing Eye, Inc.
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One of the lost animals featured on Angelo’s boxes was Ondrea, a puppy training to be a Seeing Eye dog.
From Fox News ● Jul. 18, 2019
Even in the background, walking past, you didn’t see anyone signing or with a Seeing Eye dog or a wheelchair.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2018
A few years ago, Dominguez was driving a northbound A train into the 125th Street station when he saw a blind man and his Seeing Eye dog sprawled on the tracks.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
But Mr. Bannon has served as a kind of Seeing Eye dog for the president.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Guevara, a writer who is blind, once had a seeing-eye dog that would navigate around the ankle-deep puddles and lingering muck.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2022
Christine Bray said getting Pearl was a reaction to people who saw the video and criticized the couple, telling them Opal needed a seeing-eye dog.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2019
Farhan, who now identifies as a transgender woman, hopes to obtain a seeing-eye dog to help with her visual impairment, the newspaper reported, citing parole documents.
From Fox News ● Mar. 14, 2019
Police said the vehicle turned onto the avenue and accidentally struck the 65-year-old who had been walking with his seeing-eye dog near his Upper East Side home.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2017
A blind man named Bill Irwin hiked the trail with a seeing-eye dog, falling down an estimated 5,000 times in the process.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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