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as in blinded
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as in myopic
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purblind
Adjective
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Yet thanks to Amtrak’s myopic decision making, their reliable rides will soon be in jeopardy.—
Gerard Bringmann,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2025 -
There’s a flow to the grocery store, and my myopic fixation on the handful of items I was commissioned to collect occasionally resulted in an interruption to that flow, or worse yet, a reversal to it.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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But local officials said waiting for disasters to happen is shortsighted.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
24 May 2025
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If the administration aims to cut Chinese imports, a country-by-country approach is shortsighted, according to Inu Manak, a trade policy fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.—
Grady McGregor,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And people with at least four hours of daily screen time were twice as likely to be nearsighted than individuals with less screen time.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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And once people became nearsighted, screen time was tied to 54 percent higher odds that their myopia would get worse.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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These tiny fossorial ophidians — though not the tiniest (that title belongs to this 4-inch snake from Barbados) — are nearly sightless.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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By hooking up the brains of blind rats to compasses, scientists in Japan found the sightless rodents could navigate a maze nearly as well as normally sighted rats.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Apr. 2015
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“Purblind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purblind. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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