lose sight of
Example Sentences
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But he was already way ahead of us, and Marlene was by now no more than a shadowy shape moving through the trees, and then I lost sight of her altogether.
From Literature
Mr. Macmillan doesn’t lose sight of the central truths about clinical depression: that the causes are often inscrutable, its persistence can be intractable, and temporary relief often leads only to recurrence.
The company’s Urban Outfitters locations have suffered as it lost sight of the preferences of its younger shoppers, who have struggled more acutely with inflation over the past several years.
From MarketWatch
“Sleep naturally varies day to day, but people lose sight of the big picture,” says Zlatan Krizan, a professor of psychology who runs a laboratory that studies sleep and personality at Iowa State University.
The goal is to push back on what proponents see as an academic culture that has lost sight of the purpose of a liberal arts education—and to do so from within the university.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
