blindness
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In 1987, Merck’s life-changing pill for river blindness had no market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"Because I live with blindness and mobility challenges, climate impacts affect me differently and can make everyday life much harder to navigate safely," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
This can cause sudden partial or complete blindness in one or both eyes.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
Where the blindness becomes astonishing is that the actual military situation isn’t the one being described to us with unhealthy delight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
He squints, cocks his head, struggling to penetrate his blindness by force of will.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016
Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
He does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"How secret art Thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, that bringest penal blindnesses on such as have unbridled desires," quotes Emerson from Augustine's confessions.
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by W. R. Washington Sullivan