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Recent Examples of myopic This myopic design crumbles under today’s dynamic combination of multicloud, the Internet of Things and edge AI. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025 That myopic move sadly eliminated $243,000, or more than 20 percent, of KSDS’s annual budget. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2025 Nielsen, who seemed to be channeling Jack Webb, Ronald Reagan, and Moe Howard at the same time, elevated cocksure befuddlement into a weird form of enlightenment, turning the myopic absence of self-awareness into comic gold. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 July 2025 Fox News and similar corners of the internet were ablaze with myopic insistences that any inclusion of, or even nod to, this rather essential, commonplace, and well-known part of the Superman backstory made the new movie, somehow, another piece of woke Hollywood nonsense. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for myopic
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Adjective
  • Atom’s order to alter Nibs’ memory seems wildly shortsighted, if the plan was to keep her around the other hybrids.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Today’s shortsighted, sellout city politicians are killing the golden goose under the ruse that affordable housing is the be-all and the end-all of life in San Diego.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Protecting Users From Themselves No matter how sophisticated network defenses are, a careless action can undo them.
    Max Silber, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The programmer seems to have been a little careless.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Other recommendations include avoiding reading in low light, maintaining a healthy distance from screens and books, and initiating early screening — especially in children of nearsighted parents, ideally by age 3.
    Oc Register, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Others struggle to see objects located too far away, rendering us nearsighted.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The charges of reckless endangerment of children are because Reed is accused of firing a gun in a parking lot where children were present, North Richland Hills police spokesperson Carissa Katekaru said.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur, in contrast, cut one of the most open — stroke reckless — teams the Premier League has encountered, with different intensity levels entirely, shown above.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Overall, this wasn’t a terrible episode, but having our heroes start in the UK and then end up in Spain in the first episode felt rushed and wasteful.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Is the packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Then, there’s the waste that results from improvident eating habits.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Unsurprisingly, Peter proves to be nasty, brutish and improvident.
    Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022

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“Myopic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/myopic. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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