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  • I'm very myopic, but my contacts correct for it.
    myopic = unable to see distant objects clearly
  • Flat-faced, rectangular, and brooding, the B-24 had looks only a myopic mother could love.  (source)
    myopic = with poor vision
  • Instead, Maycomb grew and sprawled out from its hub, Sinkfield's Tavern, because Sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening, induced them to bring forward their maps and charts, lop off a little here, add a bit there, and adjust the center of the county to meet his requirements.  (source)
    myopic = lacking ability to see or think about things that are distant in space or time
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  • Then she grabbed her own glasses out of her pocket and put them on, and her myopic eyes were able to focus.  (source)
    myopic = nearsighted (unable to see distant objects clearly without glasses)
  • So I congratulated myself on this achievement because I had been hoping for some form of myopia, and now I had it.  (source)
    myopia = inability to see distant objects clearly
  • She peered myopically at the calendar for a moment and then said: 'Today is March 25th.'†  (source)
  • I was selfish and myopic.  (source)
    myopic = short sighted (not thinking about the future)
  • But Saeed's father's myopia combined with his personality to give him an expression that was genuinely dreamy, and this, understandably, resulted in Saeed's mother thinking he not merely looked the part, but embodied it.  (source)
    myopia = poor vision
  • So, I mean —" dipping his brush, peering myopically at the chest—"fraud's hard to prove, but if you don't take care of this, it's a pretty sure thing that this will pop back and bite us somewhere down the road."†  (source)
  • And the unfocused gaze of her dazzled, limpid, myopic eyes.†  (source)
  • The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia.  (source)
    myopia = inability to see clearly
  • Eragon alternated between myopically examining the links of his mail and spying on Arya.†  (source)
  • Wang noticed that her eyes were both myopic and presbyopic, and she had to switch glasses both when she read and when she looked at something far away.†  (source)
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