shortsighted
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Samantha Stevens, a Los Angeles political consultant and former legislative staffer, said she is worried the proposed changes are a shortsighted solution to address police abuses that will create another layer of bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
This strategy may prove as shortsighted as it is ugly.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026
This makes Anthropic’s squabble with the Pentagon over the use of its tools even more disturbing and shortsighted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
That is a little shortsighted because 75-to-80% of our content is proprietary and not visible to any LLM.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
And all the while, Mel told her that though most people were threatened by those who were different, not everyone was so shortsighted.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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