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
The club warned people not to attempt to look through binoculars or telescopes which did not have proper solar filters as they could collect more light than the human eye could cope with, risking blindness.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
This can cause sudden partial or complete blindness in one or both eyes.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
Tatel is legally blind and seemingly feared that the justice would act with factual blindness.
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
Yet in 1924 a member of the third British expedition, Edward Felix Norton, reached an elevation of 28,126 feet—just 900 feet below the summit—before being defeated by exhaustion and snow blindness.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
He looked like the kind of man who lived on the blindnesses of others.
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
