myopia
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This can cause refractive errors such as myopia, better known as nearsightedness, in which distant objects appear blurry.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Praying for a rain delay, I found myself innings deep into “Team Moms: Baseball” before realizing that, like Bryce Harper looking at a ghost fork, I’d fallen victim to my own myopia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"The model of myopia we use in the tree shrew is fairly extreme," says corresponding author Richard Lang, PhD, director of research in the Division of Ophthalmology at Cincinnati Children's.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
But Mr. Blaževičius depicts with a deadpan ruthlessness the pull of complacency, the ease of lapsing back into lives full of compromise and myopia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Lon had been right, of course: years of poring over manuscripts had given the Librarian severe myopia, and he wore thin half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Like all TV shows, but especially ones that capture the zeitgeist, it’s a product of its time, reflecting the myopias of the era and of its creative team.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
But alongside generational myopias there is wisdom, too.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
Ultimately, however, as the disorientation expands, we realise that there are not just misogynies at work here: there are cultural myopias, competing models of freedom, competing versions of Islam.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
But it’s also a symbol for certain insistent myopias of masculinity.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
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