blindness
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This can cause sudden partial or complete blindness in one or both eyes.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
Tatel is legally blind and seemingly feared that the justice would act with factual blindness.
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 18, Petrou later advocated for “EyeBonds” and tax incentives to fund blindness research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Over time, it can lead to serious complications, including nerve damage, blindness, coma, and even death.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
He insisted that blindness and indifference to racial groups is actually more important than racial hostility to the creation and maintenance of racialized systems of control.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016
Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He looked like the kind of man who lived on the blindnesses of others.
From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston