purblind

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purblind
Adjective
  • Yet thanks to Amtrak’s myopic decision making, their reliable rides will soon be in jeopardy.
    Gerard Bringmann, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
  • There’s a flow to the grocery store, and my myopic fixation on the handful of items I was commissioned to collect occasionally resulted in an interruption to that flow, or worse yet, a reversal to it.
    Tim Maurer, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Although the city faces a significant deficit, slashing essential road maintenance is shortsighted.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • But the study argues that neglecting the role of major earthquakes would be shortsighted.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 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 tiny fossorial ophidians — though not the tiniest (that title belongs to this 4-inch snake from Barbados) — are nearly sightless.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • By hooking up the brains of blind rats to compasses, scientists in Japan found the sightless rodents could navigate a maze nearly as well as normally sighted rats.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2015
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“Purblind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purblind. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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