Example Sentences

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When governments and their advisers are, as matter of course, using AI to improve their decision-making, expect fewer purblind, tunnel-visioned strategic decisions based on wishful thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Prosecutors said the police investigation — and their office’s own at the time — “were wholly inadequate” and tunnel-visioned, failing to look into the person they now believe was the gunman.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024

That way appears to be tunnel-visioned, not seeing Shires, her contribution, or always considering the feelings of someone not simply a band member but a wife.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023

Sure, one of the driving in-jokes of Guest’s work has involved the insular, tunnel-visioned nature of the fields and characters he lampoons.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2016

Obstreperous and tunnel-visioned, detective Robin Griffin has been likened to Sarah Lund, the central figure in the Danish hit drama.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2013