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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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    The fuzzy light around Laura may have been simply an optical flaw.†  (source)
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    I would be paid $28,500 a year, minus the cost of my housing, meals, taxes, medical, dental, optical, and recreation services, all of which would be deducted automatically from my pay.†  (source)
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    The fiber-optic line from Verizon, that the building had its TV and internet plugged into, should have worked even in a blackout—assuming you could power up your own TV and cable box.†  (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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    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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    He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.†  (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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    Already the work area was a mess of tangled wires and pulsating fibre optics.†  (source)
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    It was optically extremely pure.†  (source)
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    What if the equipment storing Trisolaran data, such as hard drives and optical disks, is also sliced?†  (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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