How to Use myopic in a Sentence

myopic

adjective
  • Those critics are myopic at best, and blind as bats at worst.
    — Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • In my view, the myopic focus on function seems to miss the point.
    — Alex Erwin, The Conversation, 6 June 2025
  • And don’t be myopic about who could qualify as a mentor.
    — Cynthia Pong, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But the idea of tech as the great equalizer alone is too myopic a solution.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
  • This myopic playoff focus has allowed most of the East to pass them by.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Nativism is more looking at things in a very sort of myopic way and almost an us-versus-them.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020
  • In China, up to 90 percent of teenagers and young adults are myopic.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But scientists now suspect that this long-standing view is myopic.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But scientists now suspect that this long-standing view is myopic.
    — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The markets are often myopic and tend to extrapolate short-term trends for the long run.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Wilson believes that’s a myopic way to view his idealism.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • Now the stock markets are often myopic and tend to extrapolate short-term trends for the long run.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Musk’s myopic view of blue checkmarks as solely a status symbol and nothing more led him astray.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The modern fitness industry holds a very myopic view of what fitness is.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Getting myopic players to buy into making changes for the long-term good of the product won’t be easy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
  • Weinberg must live only in the myopic, delusional world of right-wing media.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Washington, to his eternal credit, told his myopic fanboys to go pound sand.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • If users want narrow or myopic answers, fine, that’s the way the AI will respond.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Nurture them along and do not let the myopic pressures of others convince you otherwise.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • The Academy seems myopic in its desire for ratings while wars wage and the public could care less.
    — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Chávez inspired millions — but those books will now forever read as hollow and sadly myopic.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And given that our tools are limited, our view of the world is necessarily myopic.
    — Marcelo Gleiser, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • For Cherwinski, the benefits of next month’s camp are more myopic.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Humankind is letting itself be placed into myopic mental health buckets.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Poets often are very good at the myopic and being present, deeply looking, paying attention.
    — Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Her doggedness, maybe her righteousness too, a fierce myopic focus and will, and a crazy confidence that in the end, both have nothing to lose.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
  • Eliminating them, in Garman’s eyes, would be myopic.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The Herod book doesn’t make her attitude about segregation less myopic and self-centered.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • And while the real world might have a knack for intruding on such myopic pissing contests, neither this film nor its characters seem to care.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Relying too much and too often on the same inner circle is a recipe for groupthink, which leads to myopic decision-making.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024

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