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long-sighted

[lawng-sahy-tid, long-] / ˈlɔŋˈsaɪ tɪd, ˈlɒŋ- /


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"Babies are generally born longsighted, and the changes in the optics of the eye have to coordinate with the eye growth to get to the perfect length for focused vision," said McFadden.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

This can cultivate more longsighted empathy for landscapes, people, and other organisms across decades, centuries, and millennia.

From Scientific American • Aug. 13, 2021

More longsighted advice for our teenage girls might be to learn a martial art, and gain some upper body strength.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2016

It will be, I fear, his last work of that sort, his eyes, which are very longsighted, now beginning to fail and weaken at near objects.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

Spinoza urged the uselessness of miracles, and Hume their incredibility, with a guarded subtlety and longsighted refinement of statement which made them in advance of their age except with a few.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)




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