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sighted
verb
Past of sight
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The word "sighted" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used as an adjective (e.g. "a sighted person") or as a past participle verb (e.g. "The bird-watcher sighted a rare species of bird"). For example, "The sighted person was able to spot the submerged rock in the river."
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On 6 December 1991, word reached the Langoro valley that the LRA had been sighted in the area.
An inquest found last month that Harris, 53, of Bristol, who was partially sighted, took her own life after months of constant pain and following a "fit for work" ruling that replaced her incapacity benefit with jobseeker's allowance.
So the hidden hand of Pakistan's military intelligence agency ISI has also been sighted.
Bahaa-el-din has been studying the species for four years but said it was so secretive and remarkable in its ability to stay hidden that she had only ever sighted one cat in person.
On July 28 2004, surveillance teams lost sight of Barot, but he was tracked down again and arrested on August 3. "Such was the concern that an attack on this country may be imminent the authorities made a decision to arrest Barot and his co-defendants on the next occasion he was sighted," said Mr Lawson.
The day rolled to Question Time with no clear news of whether there would be a special caucus meeting to resolve the issue, or whether the petition had been sighted by the caucus chairman Tony Abbott moved a suspension of the standing orders in an effort to generate debate about whether Australia should go to an election now, not in September.
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"It's very short-sighted of us not to legalize students who graduate from college and can use their skills to make a good life for themselves but also to give back," she told a roundtable of young Nevadans who had benefited under the president's deferred action program.
Cutting it since 2010 at a time of growing need has been arguably one of the coalition's most short-sighted policies, with – hey presto – the NHS's workload pushed up and ability to do its job enfeebled as a result.
Stereotypes that fail to see the benefits our industry brings to the world are short-sighted.
These cuts are unwarranted, short-sighted, and come on top of years of tight budgets in the public sector.
Ukraine has struggled with corruption, bad government and short-sighted reliance on cheap gas from Russia.
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