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Jauntily, Charles de Gaulle waved his arm at the 800 newsmen, adjusted his glasses and looked nearsightedly around for the first question.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he plunged nearsightedly into the curbside crowd to shake hands�a procedure that gives his security guards perpetual jitters.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's nice to see them in the race," said two-time winner Rodger Ward nearsightedly.

From Time Magazine Archive

As played by Rutger Hauer, he is an engagingly unmilitary figure, peering nearsightedly through rimless glasses at a once comfortable world going mad and finding unsuspected resources of moral courage within him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, I found an old man sitting in the chair Danny had once occupied, staring nearsightedly at the pages of a scholarly journal.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok