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shortsighted

[shawrt-sahy-tid] / ˈʃɔrtˈsaɪ tɪd /


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“I do think that those who are thinking that way are a bit too shortsighted. They don’t really see the power of the technology.”

From The Wall Street Journal

All these responses may seem cold or shortsighted.

From Salon

Yet it would be shortsighted to favor Treasurys because of the difference in these yields.

From MarketWatch

The election of a veritable communist as mayor of New York shows how shortsighted that is.

From The Wall Street Journal

On the one hand, decades of failure, foolishness and shortsighted elite greed have eroded the trust between Americans and the political and administrative mandarins.

From The Wall Street Journal