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Recent Examples of blindness
The nerve damage eventually caused by this pressure prevents normal vision and can result in partial or total blindness.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
These can show up as shimmering spots, zig-zag lines, blind spots, tunnel vision, or even temporary blindness.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
If diabetes is left untreated, your risk for serious health conditions (including kidney disease, heart attack, stroke, blindness and amputations) vastly increases, says O’Mahony.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
How strange, even after 30 years of blindness, to always leave places and people without one photograph.
—Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Gideon has 42 diagnoses, including deafness, blindness, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Taken together, these triumphal and tragic elements constitute the ingredients for an epic historical narrative that defies all moralistic categories, a story rooted in the coexistence of grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness, grace and sin.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Kurt's key takeaways The PRIMA retinal implant represents a shift in how scientists and doctors think about blindness caused by AMD.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
The signs of bird flu in dogs and cats include fever, lethargy, low appetite, red or inflamed eyes, discharge from eyes and nose, coughing or sneezing, difficulty breathing and neurologic signs such as tremors, seizures, incoordination or blindness, according to the AVMA.
—Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
These can show up as shimmering spots, zig-zag lines, blind spots, tunnel vision, or even temporary blindness.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
If diabetes is left untreated, your risk for serious health conditions (including kidney disease, heart attack, stroke, blindness and amputations) vastly increases, says O’Mahony.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
How strange, even after 30 years of blindness, to always leave places and people without one photograph.
—Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Gideon has 42 diagnoses, including deafness, blindness, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Taken together, these triumphal and tragic elements constitute the ingredients for an epic historical narrative that defies all moralistic categories, a story rooted in the coexistence of grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness, grace and sin.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Kurt's key takeaways The PRIMA retinal implant represents a shift in how scientists and doctors think about blindness caused by AMD.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
The signs of bird flu in dogs and cats include fever, lethargy, low appetite, red or inflamed eyes, discharge from eyes and nose, coughing or sneezing, difficulty breathing and neurologic signs such as tremors, seizures, incoordination or blindness, according to the AVMA.
—Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindness
Noun
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Why is amnesia such a favorite theme?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
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Another study found that creatine can help support those with traumatic brain injuries, showing improvements in amnesia, headaches and fatigue.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But some degree of forgetfulness is a normal part of life.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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According to her, his reaction wasn’t just forgetfulness but entitlement.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Back at the trailer that evening, the fire session feels better than ever, a vertiginous slide into oblivion.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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And of course all these remembrances are motivated, finally, by a desire to save, to whatever extent possible, people and stories and the truth as the authors understand it from impending oblivion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Blindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindness. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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