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shortsighted

[shawrt-sahy-tid] / ˈʃɔrtˈsaɪ tɪd /


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How many realize that staring at screens all day can make kids literally shortsighted?

From The Wall Street Journal

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” recounts how failures in political leadership—a blend of willful ignorance and shortsighted greed—can sow economic chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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