blindness
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Though most people recover, it can cause pneumonia, blindness and swelling in the brain, and erase the immune system’s memory, leading to easily acquired secondary infections.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Rather than causing complete blindness, the condition usually affects part of the vision in one eye.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
And the one fear of every rabbit in it is that men are going to find them and infect them with the white blindness.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
"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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