Definitions
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- adjective Causing one suddenly to learn or understand what was not previously known.
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- adjective Alternative form of
eyeopening .
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Examples
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Inspired by what he described as the "eye-opening" year he spent cooking at Wolfgang Puck's Santa Monica restaurant Chinois, the menu revealed Mr. Schwartz's penchant for colorful dishes and bold flavors.
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The information I uncovered, about the relationship of MSG to obesity, was both eye-opening and shocking.
Beverley Golden: Obesity, MSG and Rats Beverley Golden 2011
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It's an eye-opening piece, although by the time one gets to the end, it seems self-evident that atheists are of course emotional, biased, blinded to arguments that don't fit their world view, and prone to gross over-statement.
Deepak Chopra: Rationality And Irrationality In Believers And Atheists Deepak Chopra 2011
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Speaking of Net Neutrality, Crunchgear had an eye-opening article outlining the amount of money donated by ISPs over the last four election cycles to the 15 members of the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology who opposed Net Neutrality.
The Media Consortium: The Wavelength: Original Reporting--What's it Worth? Plus: Tracking the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger The Media Consortium 2011
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It's an eye-opening piece, although by the time one gets to the end, it seems self-evident that atheists are of course emotional, biased, blinded to arguments that don't fit their world view, and prone to gross over-statement.
Deepak Chopra: Rationality And Irrationality In Believers And Atheists Deepak Chopra 2011
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The information I uncovered, about the relationship of MSG to obesity, was both eye-opening and shocking.
Beverley Golden: Obesity, MSG and Rats Beverley Golden 2011
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The Southern Poverty Law Center article, although a bit dated by now, is especially eye-opening as it describes the way WBC has bullied and intimidated the police and local government officials into not messing with them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Short Essay on Snyder v. Phelps, Part I: The Wisdom of Hustler v. Falwell 2010
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Last week was overwhelming, amazing, and eye-opening, on a lot of levels.
TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » The New Gig: What I’m Doing and How I’m Doing 2009
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Another eye-opening finding: 38 percent of Republicans, and 20 percent of Americans overall, agree that Obama is “doing many things Hitler did.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion on Legal Challenges to the Individual Mandate 2010
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One of the eye-opening events which results from good criticism is that we not only learn to appreciate, we also learn the finiteness of the humans we judge.
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