blindness
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Together, these disorders affect about 200 million people worldwide and rank among the leading causes of visual impairment and blindness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
On this front, too, Ms. Southon’s sardonic commentary is deployed against the willful blindness of previous generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
"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
Physically, there was very little indication that anything was happening at all—they were too clever for that—but even the tiny discrepancies that squeaked through their guard I met with a kind of willful blindness.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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