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Recent Examples of shortsighted From a practical perspective, a shortsighted emphasis on tactical or operational efficacy can also lead to poor strategic outcomes, such as unintended escalation. Sebastian Elbaum, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024 The move was right in line with Jim Cramer’s commentary on Sunday that investors should give thanks to shortsighted traders who provide opportunity after opportunity for those like us with a little patience and a willingness to do the homework to win over the long-term. Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024 Adding more debt without addressing these economic realities is shortsighted. George Cardenas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025 Forcing compliance by humiliating countries that wish to be partners is extraordinarily foolish and shortsighted. Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shortsighted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortsighted
Adjective
  • Zoom Out: Embrace the Bigger Picture Too often, our calculations are myopic—focusing only on direct costs and immediate returns.
    Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The Herod book doesn’t make her attitude about segregation less myopic and self-centered.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Heat committed 14 turnovers, several of them particularly careless, and shot just 9 for 37 (24.3 percent) on threes.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Nests are usually placed on a horizontal conifer branch less than 10 feet above the ground, which makes sense, given the careless, rickety appearance of their design.
    Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The nearsighted construction worker, who doesn’t have vision insurance, said it’s been hard to find work recently and he’s had to prioritize other expenses.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Lower taxes, less regulation, eliminating bureaucracy and wasteful spending allows business to thrive.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Rubin’s reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR and Capital & Main has led to state laws protecting workers from lead poisoning and has exposed wasteful spending.
    Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In January a Bronx jury found Officer Kenneth Hood, 38, guilty of reckless endangerment and official misconduct for the incident in the George R. Vierno Center on Nov. 27, 2019, which left 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano paralyzed.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • She was arrested and charged with assault in the first degree, kidnapping in the second degree, unlawful restraint in the first degree, cruelty to persons and reckless endangerment in the first degree on March 12.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Going that route is improvident.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Unsurprisingly, Peter proves to be nasty, brutish and improvident.
    Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022

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“Shortsighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortsighted. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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