How to Use myopia in a Sentence
myopia
noun
- She wears eyeglasses to correct her myopia.
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This is the sign that the myopia of the film’s frame isn’t a miscalculation.
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K. Austin Collins,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2021
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The cure for this epidemic of meaty myopia rests in places like Hodori.
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Dominic Armato,
azcentral,
15 July 2019
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Those jokes are still pretty good, even if Will and Grace and their myopia are the punchline.
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Willa Paskin,
Slate Magazine,
28 Sep. 2017
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The eggs can stand for the czar’s unhelpful myopia during the perilous days of 1917.
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Olga Ingurazova,
Smithsonian,
29 Sep. 2017
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This took away about a quarter of the extra myopia in firstborns.
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Elizabeth Preston,
Discover Magazine,
14 Oct. 2015
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That same myopia makes the moments when those players err sting more.
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Jon Meoli,
baltimoresun.com,
24 May 2021
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Once a kid gets myopia, the eye will continue to elongate.
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Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
16 May 2024
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In myopia, either the optical power of the lens is too strong or the eyeball is too long.
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Sarah Anderson,
Discover Magazine,
27 Jan. 2022
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Keep telling yourself that his myopia says nothing at all about you.
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Haben Kelati,
Washington Post,
6 Mar. 2024
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Judicial myopia ought not block the public’s right to know.
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Jack Greiner,
The Enquirer,
22 Apr. 2021
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This myopia is the very reason many employees will leave.
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Dan Pontefract,
Forbes,
18 Oct. 2021
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With myopia, the eye is growing, but growing too long for distant rays of light to focus accurately on the back of the eye.
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CNN,
3 Oct. 2017
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The study of history is also a safeguard against myopia.
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The Economist,
18 July 2019
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At any time, the refugee is likely to be confronted—confounded—by the myopia of non-Vietnamese.
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Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2017
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No level of myopia now can shield Bochy from the vision of his final day in the Giants dugout after 13 seasons.
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Henry Schulman,
SFChronicle.com,
22 Sep. 2019
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So: glasses at age seven, contact lenses at 13, and a life spent with high myopia.
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Longreads,
25 Aug. 2023
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Sure, white people are bland and naive—how about tackling their willful blindness and myopia?
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Steve Heisler,
Chicago Reader,
2 Nov. 2017
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The likely culprits are the inertia and myopia of savers and retirement-plan...
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Jason Zweig,
WSJ,
7 June 2019
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But this myopia can and does blind us to the reality of how wealth actually works.
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Anne Branigin,
The Root,
14 Oct. 2017
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A similar myopia surrounded the invention of the laser in the postwar era.
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Steven Johnson,
WIRED,
15 Oct. 2014
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This myopia is part of a pattern that will repeat itself often in this series.
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Farhad Manjoo,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017
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This is the first time the National Academies has published a report on myopia since 1989.
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Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA TODAY,
19 Sep. 2024
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In myopia, light coming into the eye can no longer focus at the retina because the eyeball has become too long.
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Sarah Zhang,
Discover Magazine,
12 May 2012
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Is Peter Pan a children’s story warning kids about the myopia of adulthood?
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Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Apr. 2023
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Exposure to sunlight and outdoor open spaces has been shown to help with myopia.
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Devika Rao,
theweek,
5 Feb. 2024
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Apple says this can help lower the risk of myopia and reduce digital eyestrain in adults.
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Julian Chokkattu Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
13 May 2024
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The delusion of those parting with their money often matches the myopia of those squandering it.
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The Economist,
5 Oct. 2017
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The poverty debate has suffered from a similar kind of myopia.
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Matthew Desmond,
New York Times,
9 Mar. 2023
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But even mild myopia requires investments of both time and money to manage.
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Sarah Anderson,
Discover Magazine,
27 Jan. 2022
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