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as in myopic
able to see near things more clearly than distant ones
because she's so shortsighted, she's forced to wear her glasses every waking moment
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as in careless
not thinking about and providing for the future
shortsighted investors who failed to see that the boom couldn't last
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Recent Examples of shortsighted
Our failures on Earth are not unrelated to our narrow and shortsighted vision for the moon and Mars, and the broader dismissal of science.
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Louis Friedman, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2025
That belief is both understandable and shortsighted.
—Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
But excluding foreign energy altogether from a national energy security strategy is shortsighted.
—Aldo Flores-Quiroga, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Every organization fires and reassigns personnel, but doing so based on time served rather than performance is shortsighted, particularly if workers later identified as essential cannot be quickly hired back.
—Mara Karlin, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2025
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Louis Friedman, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2025
That belief is both understandable and shortsighted.
—Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
But excluding foreign energy altogether from a national energy security strategy is shortsighted.
—Aldo Flores-Quiroga, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Every organization fires and reassigns personnel, but doing so based on time served rather than performance is shortsighted, particularly if workers later identified as essential cannot be quickly hired back.
—Mara Karlin, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortsighted
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Stay true to your March vote, board members, and hire an interim CPS boss who won’t risk the system’s insolvency because of the mayor’s myopic ideological rigidity.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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Nurture them along and do not let the myopic pressures of others convince you otherwise.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Although Hill initially received two tickets for careless driving and not wearing a seat belt, they were dismissed after the officer who cited him didn’t show up to the Miami-Dade traffic hearing.—
C. Isaiah Smalls II,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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Of those fires, 90% were caused by careless human activity, the agency said.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
14 May 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
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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
Adjective
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These cuts were implemented to shear fraud and wasteful spending.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2025
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Democrats have bashed the Guantánamo effort as a wasteful political stunt, arguing the administration’s use of military resources to hold and deport migrants takes defense personnel away from their mission.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
13 May 2025
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Youngest brother Dante is reckless and indebted to dangerous criminals.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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On Sunday, officers arrested the suspect in South San Francisco and booked him into San Mateo County jail on charges of hit-and-run causing injury and reckless evading.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
14 May 2025
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Going that route is improvident.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
5 Mar. 2022
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Unsurprisingly, Peter proves to be nasty, brutish and improvident.—
Joanne Kaufman,
WSJ,
2 Dec. 2022
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“Shortsighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortsighted. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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