blindness
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The discovery challenges long-standing assumptions about how the eye functions and could eventually lead to new approaches for treating serious conditions that cause blindness.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 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
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
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
It was so dark that I wondered, as I had many times before, if this was what blindness felt like—this enveloping void.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
He looked like the kind of man who lived on the blindnesses of others.
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
