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as in myopic
able to see near things more clearly than distant ones
because she's so shortsighted, she's forced to wear her glasses every waking moment
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as in careless
not thinking about and providing for the future
shortsighted investors who failed to see that the boom couldn't last
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Recent Examples of shortsighted
But disruption for its own sake, absent a clear understanding of how care is delivered, is shortsighted.
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Unfortunately, many of the decisions that have put the railroad in its current tough spot have been made by shortsighted politicians over the years.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
But local officials said waiting for disasters to happen is shortsighted.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 24 May 2025
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
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Unfortunately, many of the decisions that have put the railroad in its current tough spot have been made by shortsighted politicians over the years.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
But local officials said waiting for disasters to happen is shortsighted.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 24 May 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortsighted
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That myopic move sadly eliminated $243,000, or more than 20 percent, of KSDS’s annual budget.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 July 2025
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Nielsen, who seemed to be channeling Jack Webb, Ronald Reagan, and Moe Howard at the same time, elevated cocksure befuddlement into a weird form of enlightenment, turning the myopic absence of self-awareness into comic gold.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
30 July 2025
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Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
8 July 2025
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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
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Critics of the proposal, such as Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian, have characterized film incentives as wasteful government spending, calling instead for the money to be used for property tax cuts.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Regular spectators and celebrities criticized the flight, calling it wasteful and excessive.—
Daysia Tolentino,
EW.com,
29 July 2025
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Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Then, there’s the waste that results from improvident eating habits.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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Going that route is improvident.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
5 Mar. 2022
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“Shortsighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortsighted. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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