Sample Sentences for
optic
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    She lost her sight due to damage to the optic nerve.
    optic = related to sight
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    But, on the other hand, they connect diagonally, and the sprawling outlines run off in great slanting waves of optic horror, like a lot of wallowing seaweeds in full chase.  (source)
    optic = relating to sight
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    In the center of the plastic tube is a hair-thin fiber-optic cable.†  (source)
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    With the optical lens, of course, that was new; the rest is ancient.†  (source)
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    The dingy backlit sign, which featured a smiling anthropomorphic fiber-optic cable, promised Lightning-Fast OASIS Access!†  (source)
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    I cleared and safed my weapon, switched off the optics, and packed it in its case.†  (source)
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    But it seemed that, when on the wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that matter, were it not for Elijah's otherwise inexplicable question.†  (source)
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    She focused on me as if I were a clever optical illusion.†  (source)
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    Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.†  (source)
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    Everything was still bathed and saturated with her presence— higher, wider, deeper than life, a shift in optics that had produced a rainbow edge, and I remember thinking that this must be how people felt after visions of saints—not that my mother was a saint, only that her appearance had been as distinct and startling as a flame leaping up in a dark room.†  (source)
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    It was optically extremely pure.†  (source)
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    Prisoner 66730 was instructed to report for an optical fitting at 6:30 the following morning.†  (source)
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    They walked away from the beach club and in the lee of a hill they saw what looked like a refugee camp, with hundreds of tents and lean-tos and people of many colors and hues— many colors and hues but mostly falling within a band of brown that ranged from dark chocolate to milky tea—and these people were gathered around fires that burned inside upright oil drums and speaking in a cacophony that was the languages of the world, what one might hear if one were a communications satellite, or a spymaster tapping into a fiber-optic cable under the sea.†  (source)
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