tunnel vision

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The world will be a better place when statesmen and their cronies routinely submit their strategic brainstorms to an LLM, free of wishful thinking or tunnel vision.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

One theory was that Ford suffered from tunnel vision.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

"There was no plan B, there was no other thing, it was just tunnel vision to win that medal," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

“The crowd is screaming but you’re not hearing it, your senses shut down, tunnel vision happens, and all you can think of is, don’t mess this up.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

I don’t know and I don’t intend to find out, but I can guess that one of the symptoms is a bad case of tunnel vision.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich