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as in blinded
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as in myopic
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Adjective
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Zoom Out: Embrace the Bigger Picture Too often, our calculations are myopic—focusing only on direct costs and immediate returns.—
Nell Derick Debevoise,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025 -
The Herod book doesn’t make her attitude about segregation less myopic and self-centered.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Two additional Trump executive orders this week would, in different ways, partly refill the swamp by expanding the remits of problematic agencies in shortsighted pursuit of glittery but temporary goals.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Congressional Democrats say the administration’s abrupt cancellation of HHS grants to states and localities worth tens of billions of dollars is shortsighted and harmful.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And once people became nearsighted, screen time was tied to 54 percent higher odds that their myopia would get worse.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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The nearsighted construction worker, who doesn’t have vision insurance, said it’s been hard to find work recently and he’s had to prioritize other expenses.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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By hooking up the brains of blind rats to compasses, scientists in Japan found the sightless rodents could navigate a maze nearly as well as normally sighted rats.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Apr. 2015
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That makes for quick, sightless control of both radio volume and climate temperature.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Purblind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purblind. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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