Example Sentences

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Because Euro-American culture myopically focuses on human welfare, we tend to view water as either a commodity or a flood threat.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2023

“The weight-centric paradigm and the inequities it creates have led to a health care system that is myopically focused on making fat people thin,” Chastain said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2022

The documentary, directed by Oren Jacoby, welcomes stage stans into a brief but loving history of Broadway that still reckons, if somewhat myopically, with some of the less attractive parts of its past and present.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021

“In live performance, their individual isolation and apathy were painfully obvious even to the myopically devoted Cream fans.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2018

On the way he stopped at the house refrigerator and peered inside, stooping down myopically to inspect the contents.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt