How to Use optics in a Sentence

optics

plural noun
  • And the last thing the Mets need in year two of the Cohen era is more bad optics.
    Jerry Beach, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The optics were not a good look for the older white co-host.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The event was a huge success not just for the racing, but for the optics.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
  • There is also the bad optics of heading to the team that just beat him in the playoffs.
    Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • In choosing her as a stylist, the optics for Harris look good in many ways.
    Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2021
  • But in retrospect, the optics of that move look bad for the Lions.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But Love convinces Theo that the optics-wise thing to do is go and promises to go with him.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
  • That said, the glitch made for pretty bad optics since Kaluuya was the first Black winner of the evening.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The optics aren’t great, but the park promises that its water is filtered and reused.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
  • The agency even went so far as to keep the optics cleaner than needed while on Earth.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
  • But the optics, with Woods at the peak of his fame, were clearly valuable to Federer.
    New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Schroeder said that while there was nothing wrong with the way the alternate was picked, the optics looked bad.
    Amy Forliti, Gene Johnson and Todd Richmond, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The optics of finishing fourth or fifth in the conference aren’t good.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But in terms of broader messaging, the optics don’t look good.
    Tom Fairless, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But the optics should have been the Afghan government being there and the Taliban being there in an equal way.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The optics could not have been worse for a Games — and a host — trying desperately to put on their best face.
    David Wharton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Not only are the optics great, but the company has one of the best warranty policies in the game.
    Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
  • No one knows but the optics from that moment probably isn’t good for Jones.
    oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The optics might be strange if a team competes with only five players.
    Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • So far, the men who have underwritten these flights seem aware of these optics.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Flip is using digital zoom while the Fold and the S22+ are relying on their optics.
    PCMAG, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Even if Compass had prevailed, the optics of the row was terrible.
    Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This features multi-coated optics that are sure to last for a long time.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 31 Mar. 2021
  • She has been released on bond, but the optics were terrible.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Even journalists took issue with the optics of the Bidens’ visit.
    Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The optics along racial and gender lines were not lost on Bottoms, leader of a city thought of by many as the heart of Black America.
    Christian Cody, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2020
  • For Beijing, the optics of the meeting is at least as important as its content.
    Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN, 17 Nov. 2021
  • To connect your binoculars, install a metal quick disconnect (QD) pin to the standard quarter-inch socket found in the front of the frame pivot on most optics.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Concerns over ‘optics’ contributed to the National Guard delay.
    Stephanie Lai, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022

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