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as in blinded
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as in myopic
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Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Micky Malka, founder of Ribbit Capital and an early backer of Robinhood, Coinbase and their European competitor Revolut, says focusing on the Coinbase-Robinhood rivalry is shortsighted.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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That's shortsighted, says Dr. Nirav Shah, former principal deputy director at CDC who left the agency in February.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
29 July 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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 20 Aug. 2025.
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