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Examples of lazy eye in a Sentence
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Untreated hyperopia can lead to the development of a lazy eye (amblyopia) or additional vision loss.
—Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
Leave a comment View Comments Failing to address eye misalignment, or to provide glasses for a child who needs them, may lead to abnormal visual development or amblyopia, which is a weak, lazy eye.
—Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024
It's usually done during childhood for conditions like lazy eye, but sometimes adults need this type of surgery, too.
—Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 1 June 2024
Failing to address eye misalignment, or to provide glasses for a child who needs them, may lead to abnormal visual development or amblyopia, which is a weak, lazy eye.
—Benjamin Botsford, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
However, during a college internship at CBS News, an industry veteran discouraged him, saying Cohen’s lazy eye would be a problem.
—Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
His approach to embodying a crusty character with a peculiar physical trait — a lazy eye — brings depth to an already compelling portrayal of a demanding teacher.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
The injections are also used to treat medical conditions such as neck spasms, sweating, overactive bladder, lazy eye and migraines.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
Angela Bettis gives one of the best horror performances of the decade as the title character, a deeply lonely veterinary assistant and amateur taxidermist with a lazy eye and no friends who loses her already tenuous grip on reality after experiencing one too many romantic rejections.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above
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“Lazy eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lazy%20eye. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
lazy eye
noun
: amblyopia
also
: an eye affected with amblyopia
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