blindness
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Rather than causing complete blindness, the condition usually affects part of the vision in one eye.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Vision issues such as blurring, difficulty looking at bright lights or complete blindness in some cases are a "red flag" warning sign.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Vision issues are a distinctive red flag, particularly blurry vision, trouble looking at bright lights, and in some cases complete blindness.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The work could also improve scientists' understanding of diseases that damage the retina, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, and congenital night blindness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Gollum in his own way, and with much more excuse as his acquaintance was much briefer, may have made a similar mistake, confusing kindness and blindness.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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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
As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone.
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
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