How to Use myopic in a Sentence

myopic

adjective

• But the idea of tech as the great equalizer alone is too myopic a solution.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
• Looking at only one side of the coin is perhaps myopic.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• Getting myopic players to buy into making changes for the long-term good of the product won’t be easy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
• In China, South Korea, and Taiwan, 90% of young adults are myopic.
  — Longreads, 25 Aug. 2023
• Nativism is more looking at things in a very sort of myopic way and almost an us-versus-them.
  — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020
• The Academy seems myopic in its desire for ratings while wars wage and the public could care less.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
• The most myopic guard could readily see it and identify her.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• Gorbachev, of course, failed—thanks in large part to his own myopic efforts to steer the Soviet Union to a newer, brighter future.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• The modern fitness industry holds a very myopic view of what fitness is.
  — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
• Smith readily admits the union is myopic on this issue.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
• For Cherwinski, the benefits of next month’s camp are more myopic.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
• The lens works by changing the focal point of the light that enters the eye to a point in front of the retina, which over time reduces the lengthening of the retina, therefore reducing the myopic progression.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2022
• But scientists now suspect that this long-standing view is myopic.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
• And given that our tools are limited, our view of the world is necessarily myopic.
  — Marcelo Gleiser, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
• That’s also a myopic and perhaps short-sighted view, too, if that’s Portland's only approach to a Lillard trade.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
• At the time of the film’s release, though, the critical consensus was rather myopic and uncharitable.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
• And Lee worries that our third-dose mania might be a bit myopic, especially with so many still unvaccinated here in the United States, and around the globe.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
• The airline accused the government of being too myopic in its focus on a small number of routes, rather than the deal’s national benefits.
  — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Andrew’s was not a myopic vision of the Church, stuck in typical politicized polarization.
  — Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
• Though the cast changed every two seasons, Skins still circled teenage anomie, unexpected pregnancy, and excessive drug use like a myopic moth to a flame.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
• His grandparents, neither of whom were myopic, were farmers in central Taiwan.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• This seems very myopic for an administration intent to rise above the overt nationalism of the previous one.
  — Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
• Although academe may dismiss the Galileo Project as nothing more than pandering to a gullible public, such prejudice is unhelpful and myopic.
  — Seth Shostak, Scientific American, 29 July 2021
• Some of the series’ best episodes have expanded the show beyond the Dogs themselves, whose perspective can be myopic in the way of young people experiencing their first brush with adulthood.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
• Its stellar casting and White’s directing drew out some of the best performances of its actors’ lives, especially from the ineffable Coolidge in the role of a black hole of myopic misery.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 24 Oct. 2022
• The undercurrents of the shift toward the in-office work model reveal a myopic view that neglects the necessity to evolve and adapt to today’s dynamic work landscape.
  — Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
• With his compassionate humor, Chekhov neither indicts his characters nor lets them off the hook for their myopic concerns.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• To which Elisa basically says: Well, should that be an excuse for being a myopic and inconsiderate friend?
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• Playing on each character’s myopic vision of the family and their general insufferableness, the Molyneuxs craft a story that provides a steady stream of laughs and gives the performers a chance to flex their comedic chops.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
• When the eyeball elongates, the stretching can damage the wall of your retina and cause permanent, non-correctible vision loss such as myopic macular generation.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024