noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
20/20 vision
a nightmare vision (= a very bad situation that might happen )
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The book gives us a nightmare vision of a family destroyed by one man's secrets.
binocular vision
breadth of vision
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a politician known for his breadth of vision
clarity of vision/purpose/thought etc
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Churchill’s clarity of vision impressed all who knew him.
cloud sb’s judgement/mind/vision etc
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Don’t let your personal feelings cloud your judgement.
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Fear had clouded his vision.
double vision
line of vision (= the direction I was looking in )
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A boat came into my line of vision .
stereoscopic vision
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stereoscopic vision
tunnel vision
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I’ve got tunnel vision when it comes to what I want to do.
vision...blurred
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His vision was blurred .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
binocular
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But their range of binocular vision is only about 30°.
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Ben possessed the kind of binocular vision I needed so badly.
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Ducks, too, have 360° vision , with eyes on the sides of their heads, but with limited binocular vision.
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For example owls and other predatory birds such as buzzards have binocular vision and acute hearing although they have a poor sense of smell.
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It has binocular vision for locating its prey and now rests motionless, waiting for the potential victim to come closer.
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The fish possesses a further adaptation to enhance its accuracy: binocular vision .
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Although it occurs among mammals and birds, few other fish possess binocular vision .
clear
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Namely, clear vision for the driver, whatever the conditions.
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But the history of New York development shows how haphazard such controls can be if there is no such clear vision .
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That view may be interpreted as a piece of self-delusion, or as a clear vision .
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But Welch demystified it by basing it on a clear , well-articulated vision and the right principles.
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My brain is filled full of vague images, but no clear vision of one necessary thing.
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They are able to do this be-cause they start out with a clear vision of where they want to go.
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The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision .
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Put simply, polarisation works like a venetian blind to cut reflection from above and below yet still allow clear vision .
defective
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These measures will show the distance at which the child with defective vision can be expected to discriminate visually presented material.
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In short, nearly one in three possessed physical defects, a figure which took no account of dental problems or defective vision .
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Should children with defective vision be resting their eyes?
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Small print, dense layout, footnotes and detailed diagrams can be very demanding for some pupils with defective vision .
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The ultimate aim must be to help pupils with defective vision to use as much standard material as possible in common with their classmates.
different
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The three Piper operas represent a different vision of musical dramaturgy to the rest of the Britten canon.
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Forgotten, perhaps, in this mini building boom, is a different vision .
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It was only a little local wrangle. Different strategic visions of the club and that sort of thing.
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But as in Las Vegas, the players are provided a different vision .
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A different vision of the company might draw upon the democratic ideal which inspires the relation of the citizen to the state.
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It is a case of same view, slightly different vision .
double
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Repeat prescription 16. Double vision 17.
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He can walk and his speech is not affected, but he suffers from poor concentration and intermittent double vision .
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Dizziness with blurred or double vision .
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Eyes Blurred vision , double vision, sensitivity to bright lights.
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Shakespeare's early poems sketch that double vision and later many of his heroes are plagued by it.
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The operation left Keith profoundly disabled, he's deaf, he walks with difficulty and suffers double vision .
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This double vision of the woman-goddess is said to be the mainspring of Shakespeare's tragedies.
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If the two eyes are not directed at the same object, double vision results.
grand
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The cap, then, falls within an overall grand vision of chanciness and risk.
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The pride, excitement, and extraordinary accomplishments Byrd refers to came in response to what was obviously a grand vision .
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Rank was a businessman who pursued a grander vision than Isidore Ostrer or John Maxwell had ever done.
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The grand vision of the position of Canterbury was reinforced by anxieties such as these.
new
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But by the middle of the twenties, when Ramsey began to study the matter, a new vision appeared.
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If you enlist them effectively these people will make extraordinary efforts to advance new visions and possibilities.
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Before November, the president may proclaim a new vision of government for a new age.
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The new monistic vision demands a different aesthetic expression from that appropriate to the dualistic vision.
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In his 1986 State of the City address, he summed up his new vision .
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This new vision of life is in marked contrast to the blindness and insensitivity of self-interest and pride.
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Many Democratic veterans believe the new liberal vision must necessarily include some government cutting.
normal
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We need additional, converging, evidence to show that the subcortical visual system contributes to normal vision .
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Without turning my head, I see them as clearly as though in my normal field of vision .
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This is recorded as normal vision .
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This two-stage account of his neglect is in accordance with recent two-stage characterizations of normal vision .
original
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Daimler will either be a monument to his original vision , or just another lame duck.
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Rice had a powerful and original vision , and the charisma to instill that vision in others.
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A major departure from his original vision was the rejection of a seven year course - but other concepts were accepted.
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They are always people with an original vision .
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Like the center of a dying fire, the Great Plains held that original vision longest.
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He or she is a pragmatic dreamer, a person with an original but attainable vision .
peripheral
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This allows them to maintain the same panoramic peripheral vision over a wide range of light levels.
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I held Ellie in my peripheral vision , watching her long neck and the swell of her chest from across the room.
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I was taking it slowly when I caught a flash of red on the edge of my peripheral vision .
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The sailor must have caught my sudden motion in his peripheral vision: he looked up suddenly, and dimensions shifted again.
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I made do with peripheral vision , which, after all, is the next best thing.
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Use your peripheral vision widely when moving from place to place.
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Tracers from our own guns flowed in my peripheral vision .
poor
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Justice for the Poor is a vision which can unite us all.
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The syndrome usually causes poor vision as well.
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This is the easy part, proving difficult only for those with unsteady hands, poor vision or failure to comprehend.
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A bird would need extremely poor vision to be fooled by it.
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Vague or inexact directions can be mystifying for pupils with poor vision .
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The letters should be sufficiently large and should be placed soas to cater for patients with poor vision .
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Perhaps each species of bird or monkey has poor vision and latches on to just one limited aspect of an insect.
powerful
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Basques, too, had a powerful vision of their own different identity and special history.
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Rice had a powerful and original vision , and the charisma to instill that vision in others.
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New organization designs can portray powerful visions to guide people to work together in new ways needed to deliver performance and change.
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A powerful enough vision can transform what would otherwise be loss and drudgery into sacrifice.
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Indeed, that event more than any other produced a powerful vision for Black &038; White.
■ NOUN
night
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I had killed the lights and my night vision was well adjusted when he arrived.
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Red lamps at night do not interrupt your night vision , it is true.
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Car headlamps are a different matter: they wreck night vision immediately.
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It was dark and my night vision was less than special.
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He decided to launch his attack right away, while the other man's night vision was still impaired.
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At night agents wear special night vision goggles.
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Cats have good night vision but can't see colour very well.
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I crept through the brush as only a boy with bad night vision can.
tunnel
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Something not unlike tunnel vision ensues in the case of black kids.
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Each group has its insular concerns and each is locked within the tunnel vision of its own experience and tangible self-interest.
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I just looked straight down the track, set my tunnel vision and climbed into my blocks.
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Such proposals are typical of the tunnel vision that has characterized most of our economic models.
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And many, surely, that our human tunnel vision is unable to perceive.
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But such thinking can produce temporal tunnel vision .
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Both had been disgracefully neglected till then. Tunnel vision and mutual incomprehension were natural reactions.
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I had three children, a home to run ... and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned.
■ VERB
blur
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She felt the anguished tears of motherhood blur her vision and blinked them away.
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After a few minutes of running through drills, the girls began to complain of headaches and blurred vision .
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Tears blurred her vision as she swung out, hammering on the horn.
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Frank slid into second base, wound up with blurred vision and missed the rest of the year.
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Instead of which she found herself having to blink away the sting of tears that blurred her vision .
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Sufferers also complain of headaches, intermittent blurred vision and vision sluggishness.
cloud
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He told me that there are good people about and not to let this incident cloud my vision .
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He had perhaps allowed hatred of the Hohenstaufer to cloud his vision .
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If the sheer quantity of information about 1992 is clouding your vision , look no further for the silver lining.
create
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In most cases, however, it would appear that leader and follower participate together in creating the vision .
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In yet other settings it means creating a schoolwide vision for a school in transition, as at Thayer.
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Overall perspective Linked to the notion of creating a vision is connecting that vision to the overall perspective of the organisation.
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My thanks to her and all the other women who have had the courage to create alternative visions .
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What we must do is to create the greatest visions of our lives and live them.
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The single defining quality of leaders is the capacity to create and realize a vision .
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Yet whenever they meet, they repeatedly fail to create the vision and the strategy they desire.
offer
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You need to offer a vision of what government can do to help.
share
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We share the same liberating visions and commitments as our biblical foremothers.
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Visualize what the company should be like, and share that vision .
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Thursday Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night.
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Moreover his senior colleagues shared his vision for change in his division and in Southwest as a whole.
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The biggest difficulty has been sharing my vision with others.
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A fellow New Democrat, Gore shared the Clinton vision .
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It's the difference between putting across a point of view, and sharing a vision .
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The same shared vision guides us today.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
field of vision/view
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His head would explode, and his field of vision would contract until he was almost blind.
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It will be appreciated that the precise nature of the degree or defect in acuity or field of vision is highly individual.
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Mrs LaRue smiled and moved away from my field of vision.
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Some evidence for this point of view is given under validation - sensitivity across the field of view.
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The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.
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With astonishment, I saw distinct black specks dancing in the field of view.
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With increased power, the field of view becomes smaller, and with increased aperture the binoculars become heavier.
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Without turning my head, I see them as clearly as though in my normal field of vision.
peripheral vision
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I held Ellie in my peripheral vision, watching her long neck and the swell of her chest from across the room.
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I made do with peripheral vision, which, after all, is the next best thing.
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I was taking it slowly when I caught a flash of red on the edge of my peripheral vision.
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The sailor must have caught my sudden motion in his peripheral vision: he looked up suddenly, and dimensions shifted again.
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This allows them to maintain the same panoramic peripheral vision over a wide range of light levels.
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Tracers from our own guns flowed in my peripheral vision.
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Use your peripheral vision widely when moving from place to place.
twenty-twenty vision
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I hope that the account that follows will seem straight forward-but it is written with the twenty-twenty vision of hindsight.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As Martha grew older, her vision began to fail.
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Bernadette had a vision in which the Virgin Mary appeared before her.
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He complained that the new lenses gave him double vision and headaches.
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In her vision , Joan of Arc saw an angel telling her to go and fight for France.
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Many people claim to have had visions while praying at Lourdes.
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My aunt still has some vision in her left eye - she can make out colours and shapes.
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Three days before she died, Rita was blessed with a vision of Our Lord.
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Until she was eighteen she had 20-20 vision - now she has to wear glasses.
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When he woke up he had a splitting headache and his vision was blurred.
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When I have a migraine, I can't stand up without vomiting and my vision is distorted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the history of New York development shows how haphazard such controls can be if there is no such clear vision .
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Contact lenses sometimes give better visual acuity in these cases and the field of vision is nearly always improved.
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If your vision proves true, he said, I will be very rich.
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Reporters and producers have a public duty to speak out if their vision of truth is suppressed by government appointees.
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The Keeper of the Shrine of Asuryan plucked out his eyes but even this did not stop the terrible visions.
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This vision imposes severe social conditions, however.
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Through their photography Marcy and Muybridge opened up to vision things that the human eye could not perceive.