How to Use myopic in a Sentence

myopic

adjective
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  • Those critics are myopic at best, and blind as bats at worst.
    — Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • In China, up to 90 percent of teenagers and young adults are myopic.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But the idea of tech as the great equalizer alone is too myopic a solution.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Looking at only one side of the coin is perhaps myopic.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 July 2022
  • Getting myopic players to buy into making changes for the long-term good of the product won’t be easy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
  • In China, South Korea, and Taiwan, 90% of young adults are myopic.
    — Longreads, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Nativism is more looking at things in a very sort of myopic way and almost an us-versus-them.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The Academy seems myopic in its desire for ratings while wars wage and the public could care less.
    — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The most myopic guard could readily see it and identify her.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Gorbachev, of course, failed—thanks in large part to his own myopic efforts to steer the Soviet Union to a newer, brighter future.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The modern fitness industry holds a very myopic view of what fitness is.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Musk’s myopic view of blue checkmarks as solely a status symbol and nothing more led him astray.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Smith readily admits the union is myopic on this issue.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Weinberg must live only in the myopic, delusional world of right-wing media.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • For Cherwinski, the benefits of next month’s camp are more myopic.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The lens works by changing the focal point of the light that enters the eye to a point in front of the retina, which over time reduces the lengthening of the retina, therefore reducing the myopic progression.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But scientists now suspect that this long-standing view is myopic.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But scientists now suspect that this long-standing view is myopic.
    — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2024
  • And given that our tools are limited, our view of the world is necessarily myopic.
    — Marcelo Gleiser, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • That’s also a myopic and perhaps short-sighted view, too, if that’s Portland's only approach to a Lillard trade.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
  • That myopic view ignores the fact that businesses made investments in the expectation that Congress would do the right thing.
    — The Editors, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The actor presents the infamous millionaire as a man who is all id, a myopic clown who vocalizes every random thought that floats through his mind.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 June 2024
  • At the time of the film’s release, though, the critical consensus was rather myopic and uncharitable.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
  • And Lee worries that our third-dose mania might be a bit myopic, especially with so many still unvaccinated here in the United States, and around the globe.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The airline accused the government of being too myopic in its focus on a small number of routes, rather than the deal’s national benefits.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Throughout the 20th century, many economists came to see this approach as myopic.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Andrew’s was not a myopic vision of the Church, stuck in typical politicized polarization.
    — Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Though the cast changed every two seasons, Skins still circled teenage anomie, unexpected pregnancy, and excessive drug use like a myopic moth to a flame.
    — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
  • His grandparents, neither of whom were myopic, were farmers in central Taiwan.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • This seems very myopic for an administration intent to rise above the overt nationalism of the previous one.
    — Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021

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