How to Use myopia in a Sentence

myopia

noun
  • She wears eyeglasses to correct her myopia.
  • Keep telling yourself that his myopia says nothing at all about you.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That same myopia makes the moments when those players err sting more.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2021
  • This myopia dates back almost to the moment when the guns fell silent and the peace treaty was signed.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The best prevention for myopia is not an app or a screen filter.
    — John La Puma, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This took away about a quarter of the extra myopia in firstborns.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2015
  • The cure for this epidemic of meaty myopia rests in places like Hodori.
    — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • Outdoor time also helps even if kids have parents who have myopia.
    — Maria Godoy, NPR, 13 May 2024
  • The research looks at what's increasing the chances of myopia in kids.
    — Katie Grant, Parents, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The longer the eye’s axial length, the greater increase of myopia.
    — Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This is the sign that the myopia of the film’s frame isn’t a miscalculation.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Sure, white people are bland and naive—how about tackling their willful blindness and myopia?
    — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Those jokes are still pretty good, even if Will and Grace and their myopia are the punchline.
    — Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
  • In myopia, either the optical power of the lens is too strong or the eyeball is too long.
    — Sarah Anderson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
  • This myopia is part of a pattern that will repeat itself often in this series.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
  • But experts say there are ways to try and limit the risk of myopia or prevent eyes from worsening.
    — Katie Grant, Parents, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Scientists blame such myopia for the long gap between breakthroughs.
    — Jacob Sweet, Vox, 8 May 2024
  • Exposure to sunlight and outdoor open spaces has been shown to help with myopia.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But even mild myopia requires investments of both time and money to manage.
    — Sarah Anderson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The flaws in the tech world are usually not owing to ill intent but to amnesia and myopia.
    — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
  • But this myopia can and does blind us to the reality of how wealth actually works.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The poverty debate has suffered from a similar kind of myopia.
    — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Apple says this can help lower the risk of myopia and reduce digital eyestrain in adults.
    — Julian Chokkattu Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 13 May 2024
  • Here, Thomas’s argument falls prey to a certain middle-class myopia.
    — Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
  • In myopia, light coming into the eye can no longer focus at the retina because the eyeball has become too long.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2012
  • Hartley said there may be some myopia with the constant focus on the pandemic and economy.
    — cleveland, 1 Nov. 2020
  • With myopia, the eye is growing, but growing too long for distant rays of light to focus accurately on the back of the eye.
    — CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The delusion of those parting with their money often matches the myopia of those squandering it.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Basically, the Clairo-shade meme is a way of poking fun at the myopia of modern stan culture.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
  • The eggs can stand for the czar’s unhelpful myopia during the perilous days of 1917.
    — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017

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