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Recent Examples of myopic Longtime creative partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg often co-write and co-direct and the show centers around a hapless head of the fictional Continental Studios portrayed by Rogen and surrounded by a band of equally myopic execs. Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025 The tone shifts, though, becoming myopic and even a little queasy once the film leaves high school behind and heads deeper into the forest, literally and figuratively, a shift that mimics the swoony, woozy, consumptive rush of first love — just what Hardwicke intended to capture. Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025 Despite being married to a therapist, Josh is rather myopic about his own emotional well-being and Foster telegraphs that disconnect with a softened tone of voice and a skittish kind of physicality. Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 9 May 2025 Although myopic macular degeneration can cause vision loss, many people with the condition can maintain their eyesight with treatment. Lindsay Curtis, Health, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for myopic
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Adjective
  • Simply put, letting these credits lapse is fiscally shortsighted and economically reckless.
    Brewster Bevis, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
  • The example of Canada, the seventh-largest owner of U.S. debt, illustrates why this approach is shortsighted, however.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • The problem isn’t that general providers are careless, but that their systems and staff simply aren’t built for these edge cases.
    Ari Raptis, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • When businesses are careless and people get hurt, those businesses should be held accountable.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • And people with at least four hours of daily screen time were twice as likely to be nearsighted than individuals with less screen time.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • These raids are reckless and sow more chaos and division in our city.
    Anna Commander Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Two other Democrats, however, have denounced the strikes as a reckless escalation.
    Lila Hempel-Edgers, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • The frustration helped spawn the fruitless and wasteful 2021 attempt to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom — which cost taxpayers more than $200 million — and fuels the perennial fantasy of a breakaway rural state called Jefferson.
    Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 3 July 2025
  • Some onlookers have criticized the initiative as costly and wasteful.
    Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Then, there’s the waste that results from improvident eating habits.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Going that route is improvident.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022

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“Myopic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/myopic. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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