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Recent Examples of shortsighted But disruption for its own sake, absent a clear understanding of how care is delivered, is shortsighted. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025 Unfortunately, many of the decisions that have put the railroad in its current tough spot have been made by shortsighted politicians over the years. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025 But local officials said waiting for disasters to happen is shortsighted. Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 24 May 2025 If the administration aims to cut Chinese imports, a country-by-country approach is shortsighted, according to Inu Manak, a trade policy fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Grady McGregor, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shortsighted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortsighted
Adjective
  • The technology is approached with a myopic view for a particular process or function, often generating some initial time savings within that process, but failing to scale beyond that narrow scope.
    Jeffrey Eiben, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Fox News and similar corners of the internet were ablaze with myopic insistences that any inclusion of, or even nod to, this rather essential, commonplace, and well-known part of the Superman backstory made the new movie, somehow, another piece of woke Hollywood nonsense.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • And people with at least four hours of daily screen time were twice as likely to be nearsighted than individuals with less screen time.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • And once people became nearsighted, screen time was tied to 54 percent higher odds that their myopia would get worse.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 12 July 2025
  • In stunningly lyrical prose, Johnson pays a finely hewn attention to that which our wasteful, capitalistic society discards and collapses the dichotomies of high and low art.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
  • He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Then, there’s the waste that results from improvident eating habits.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Going that route is improvident.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022

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“Shortsighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortsighted. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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