: having sight
clear-sighted
a sighted person
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Bum-seok listens impatiently to their second-hand accounts of tiger tracks being sighted in the mountains, leading them to assume the animal must have wandered all the way down from Siberia.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Many large corporations are aggressively seeking ways to replace human expertise with algorithms to save a dollar, a trend that is both short-sighted and detrimental to the social fabric.
—Jj Jasser, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
While the program was originally intended to provide reading material for those who couldn't read books in their original format, books on tape — and now, digital audiobooks — are popular with the sighted community too.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
This is the In-between Time, when far-sighted certainty is a vanishingly rare commodity.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 1 May 2026
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Many large corporations are aggressively seeking ways to replace human expertise with algorithms to save a dollar, a trend that is both short-sighted and detrimental to the social fabric.
—Jj Jasser, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
While the program was originally intended to provide reading material for those who couldn't read books in their original format, books on tape — and now, digital audiobooks — are popular with the sighted community too.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
This is the In-between Time, when far-sighted certainty is a vanishingly rare commodity.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 1 May 2026
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“Sighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sighted. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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sighted
adjective
sight·ed
ˈsīt-əd 
: having sight
clear-sighted
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