How to Use myopic in a Sentence

myopic

adjective

• Those critics are myopic at best, and blind as bats at worst.
  — Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
• In China, up to 90 percent of teenagers and young adults are myopic.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• 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
• This myopic perspective by the White House isn’t the answer to the nation’s housing crisis.
  — Joseph Strasburg, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Musk’s myopic view of blue checkmarks as solely a status symbol and nothing more led him astray.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
• Smith readily admits the union is myopic on this issue.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
• Weinberg must live only in the myopic, delusional world of right-wing media.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
• 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
• But scientists now suspect that this long-standing view is myopic.
  — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 31 Mar. 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
• That myopic view ignores the fact that businesses made investments in the expectation that Congress would do the right thing.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
• The actor presents the infamous millionaire as a man who is all id, a myopic clown who vocalizes every random thought that floats through his mind.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 June 2024
• 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
• Throughout the 20th century, many economists came to see this approach as myopic.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• In any event, judging is a somewhat monastic process, focused on interpreting the law through the myopic lens of a particular case.
  — José A. Cabranes, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024