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Recent Examples of blindness
This progressive condition can cause vision loss and blindness.
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Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 25 Feb. 2026
His remarks show a blindness and were inartful.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
The condition can cause blurred and obscured vision, while more serious cases can result in sudden permanent vision loss or blindness.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Proceeds support Vision of Children’s mission to cure childhood hereditary blindness and improve quality of life, according to a news release.
—Dawn Giangiulio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Though rare, measles can also cause blindness, as well as hearing loss, which occurs in between seven and nine out of 100 cases.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2026
Doctors worry in particular about unprotected young children, for whom severe complications — pneumonia, brain swelling and blindness — are more common.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Glaucoma remains a leading cause of blindness worldwide, and while treatments often focus on lowering intraocular pressure, damage to retinal ganglion cells can continue even when pressure is controlled.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
Direct impact often results in permanent blindness and, in rare cases, penetration of the brain through the eye socket.
—Michele Heisler, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 25 Feb. 2026
His remarks show a blindness and were inartful.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
The condition can cause blurred and obscured vision, while more serious cases can result in sudden permanent vision loss or blindness.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Proceeds support Vision of Children’s mission to cure childhood hereditary blindness and improve quality of life, according to a news release.
—Dawn Giangiulio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Though rare, measles can also cause blindness, as well as hearing loss, which occurs in between seven and nine out of 100 cases.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2026
Doctors worry in particular about unprotected young children, for whom severe complications — pneumonia, brain swelling and blindness — are more common.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Glaucoma remains a leading cause of blindness worldwide, and while treatments often focus on lowering intraocular pressure, damage to retinal ganglion cells can continue even when pressure is controlled.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
Direct impact often results in permanent blindness and, in rare cases, penetration of the brain through the eye socket.
—Michele Heisler, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindness
Noun
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Oral histories are the inner chambers of official records, the antidote to the historical amnesia that continues to plague us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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Kuper suggests that, where English hooliganism represents a grotesque form of nostalgia, postwar Japanese civility is a pose predicated on collective amnesia about wartime atrocities.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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What these succulents don’t handle well is overwatering, so don’t think that giving them a little extra to make up for forgetfulness will pay off.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2026
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Running gags include Moses’ age, certain players’ penchant for forgetfulness and star receiver Stefon Diggs’ proclivity for procreation.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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All of this culminates in a stunning sequence set in a rundown hospital, where the majority of the ensemble returns, and is forced into further moral dilemmas under the threat of oblivion, in a race-against-the-clock finale shot in enrapturing long takes.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
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The phrase, part of one of Banks’s most famous ‘Ty-rade’s against contestant Tiffany Richardson in Cycle 4, has been memed into oblivion.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Blindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindness. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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