Example Sentences

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“Some asteroids could be seen telescopically, even in the Los Angeles area, if you have an instrument that is large enough to do it,” Krupp said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

When astrophysicists telescopically squint just so at the Crab nebula—much like they do to perceive its crustacean shape—they see hints that it may have exploded in a similar fashion.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023

The leaf blades and the floral ‘spike’ of grass species, including rice, develop from a compact shoot tip that expands upwards telescopically as the plant matures.

From Nature • Jul. 14, 2020

Even if she was writing a scene based in what she could recall, she allowed herself to inhabit the moment telescopically, to see with the imagination what was no longer there.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2019

And in the early morning swept clean of clouds and telescopically clear, we crunched around on the thick white ground cover of frost and got under way.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck