How to Use myopia in a Sentence
myopia
noun- She wears eyeglasses to correct her myopia.
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This is the sign that the myopia of the film’s frame isn’t a miscalculation.
— K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021 -
The cure for this epidemic of meaty myopia rests in places like Hodori.
— Dominic Armato, azcentral, 15 July 2019 -
Those jokes are still pretty good, even if Will and Grace and their myopia are the punchline.
— Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017 -
The eggs can stand for the czar’s unhelpful myopia during the perilous days of 1917.
— Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017 -
This took away about a quarter of the extra myopia in firstborns.
— Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2015 -
That same myopia makes the moments when those players err sting more.
— Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2021 -
Once a kid gets myopia, the eye will continue to elongate.
— Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 16 May 2024 -
In myopia, either the optical power of the lens is too strong or the eyeball is too long.
— Sarah Anderson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022 -
Keep telling yourself that his myopia says nothing at all about you.
— Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Judicial myopia ought not block the public’s right to know.
— Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2021 -
This myopia is the very reason many employees will leave.
— Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021 -
With myopia, the eye is growing, but growing too long for distant rays of light to focus accurately on the back of the eye.
— CNN, 3 Oct. 2017 -
The study of history is also a safeguard against myopia.
— The Economist, 18 July 2019 -
At any time, the refugee is likely to be confronted—confounded—by the myopia of non-Vietnamese.
— Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017 -
No level of myopia now can shield Bochy from the vision of his final day in the Giants dugout after 13 seasons.
— Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2019 -
So: glasses at age seven, contact lenses at 13, and a life spent with high myopia.
— Longreads, 25 Aug. 2023 -
Sure, white people are bland and naive—how about tackling their willful blindness and myopia?
— Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2017 -
The likely culprits are the inertia and myopia of savers and retirement-plan...
— Jason Zweig, WSJ, 7 June 2019 -
But this myopia can and does blind us to the reality of how wealth actually works.
— Anne Branigin, The Root, 14 Oct. 2017 -
A similar myopia surrounded the invention of the laser in the postwar era.
— Steven Johnson, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2014 -
This myopia is part of a pattern that will repeat itself often in this series.
— Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017 -
In myopia, light coming into the eye can no longer focus at the retina because the eyeball has become too long.
— Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2012 -
Is Peter Pan a children’s story warning kids about the myopia of adulthood?
— Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023 -
Exposure to sunlight and outdoor open spaces has been shown to help with myopia.
— Devika Rao, theweek, 5 Feb. 2024 -
The delusion of those parting with their money often matches the myopia of those squandering it.
— The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017 -
The poverty debate has suffered from a similar kind of myopia.
— Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023 -
But even mild myopia requires investments of both time and money to manage.
— Sarah Anderson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022 -
There isn’t enough evidence yet to tie extended phone and screen use to a rise in myopia, but Maturi says the correlation is quite strong.
— Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 11 July 2024 -
Adjustable myopia dials and IPD adjustments ensure a personalized fit, reducing glare and enhancing viewing comfort.
— Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
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