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The film offers a brief origin story: As a kid, May’s lazy eye required an eyepatch that her peers mocked.
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Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Untreated hyperopia can lead to the development of a lazy eye (amblyopia) or additional vision loss.
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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.
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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.
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Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 1 June 2024
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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 9 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
lazy eye
noun
: amblyopia
also
: an eye affected with amblyopia
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