as in myopic
able to see near things more clearly than distant ones I am a little nearsighted and need to wear glasses to drive

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Recent Examples of nearsighted 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 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 The display's focus can also be manually adjusted to accommodate nearsighted users. Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2024 With presbyopia, the patient is neither nearsighted nor farsighted and requires no glasses for distance vision. Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for nearsighted
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Adjective
  • Showing Up’s potentially myopic perspective contrasts significantly from Reichardt’s Night Moves, a film about radical white environmental activists whose designs of blowing up a dam backfires, causing their inept leader Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) to erratically cover his tracks.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The best companies recognize that such a myopic focus on the quarterly cycle is a distraction from building a great business.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Griffin knew that both LeBron and the Lakers could be shortsighted.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And ignoring these risks would be shortsighted.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Nearsighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nearsighted. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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