Example Sentences

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She wears reading glasses, 1.5 strength — a tidbit that didn’t make it into my story but gave me a certain middle age presbyopic nerd thrill.

From New York Times • May 18, 2024

Dr. Brent Timperly, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Truhlsen Eye Institute, said lens implants may be a good option for older people who are presbyopic and have lost near vision.

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2016

Operations for cataract are everyday affairs; some aging, presbyopic dogs have been fitted with plastic contact lenses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although he is probably astigmatic, I think "presbyopic" would be the more apt term .

From Time Magazine Archive

A presbyopic, white-thatched, gangling bachelor of 67, Morandi lives with two sisters in a Bologna apartment that smells, sweetly, of the 19th century.

From Time Magazine Archive