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What is "eagle-eyed"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eagle-eyed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The error was caught by an eagle-eyed bank employee.
▪ The hotel was run by an eagle-eyed old man who knew everything about all the guests.
▪ Two eagle-eyed reporters noticed the politician leaving a prostitute's house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again the overall approach is Spartan in its self-denying austerity and yet has a wholly characteristic eagle-eyed intensity.
▪ Nobody but the kids and I knew about it, and I never got caught by the eagle-eyed press.
▪ They may be eagle-eyed or watch like a lynx.
▪ They needed no professional help with the evening's drinking but arose magically clear-headed and eagle-eyed for each subsequent day's golf.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eagle-eyed

Eagle-eyed \Ea"gle-eyed`\, a. Sharp-sighted as an eagle. ``Inwardly eagle-eyed.''
--Howell.

Wiktionary
eagle-eyed

a. 1 Having great visual acuity, especially the ability to see at a distance. 2 describing someone who is perceptive. alt. 1 Having great visual acuity, especially the ability to see at a distance. 2 describing someone who is perceptive.

WordNet
eagle-eyed

adj. capable of seeing to a great distance [syn: keen-sighted, farseeing, longsighted]

Usage examples of "eagle-eyed".

Or, as when de Bergerac had fought Burton during the raid, a shout from a third party might distract a dueler for a fraction of a second, just enough for the cat-swift and eagle-eyed opponent to drive his sword into the other.

It struck the backstop not a foot from the goal, but before the eagle-eyed Weems could shift his hand, a Polliwog player was in the air and had caught it with one of his reflectors.

It struck the backstop not a foot from the goal, but before the eagle-eyed Weems could shift his hand, a Polliwog player was in the air and had caught it with one of his reflectors.

Macks and Peterbilts, sedans, coupes, SUVs, pickups, vans, auto carriers, motor homes, tanker trucks raced westward, weaving back and forth from lane to lane, and without once slowing, Dylan plunged the Expedition through the gaps in traffic as expertly as an eagle-eyed tailor speed-threading a long series of needles.

These items were concealable inside his nylon jacket-so long as the breakfast tray shielded the obvious bulge out of Hollister's eagle-eyed angle of view.

As were a healthy chunk of the long terms, with a little left over for a few eagle-eyed independents such as yours truly.