lose sight of
Example Sentences
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Like the boy in Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun, originalists sometimes lose sight of what constitutional text would have meant to ordinary people when those provisions were adopted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The risk is we become fixed on chasing individual substances in an unregulated market and we lose sight of the individual circumstances that are related to that," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
And as Ma gasps her final breaths, she makes her smart little girl promise to never lose sight of her ultimate goal.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
But workers shouldn’t lose sight of the benefits of hybrid work arrangements, said Stanford University economist Nick Bloom, who has studied the rise of working from home.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
In the midst of all the postmortem ratiocination, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that climbing mountains will never be a safe, predictable, rule-bound enterprise.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
