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tunnel vision

[tuhn-l vizh-uhn] / ˈtʌn l ˈvɪʒ ən /


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The world will be a better place when statesmen and their cronies routinely submit their strategic brainstorms to an LLM, free of wishful thinking or tunnel vision.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

One theory was that Ford suffered from tunnel vision.

From Slate Apr. 6, 2026

"I feel like locking in is a way of romanticising getting into your deep work and making that decision of like, 'okay, it's time to get stuff done'." She compares it to tunnel vision.

From BBC Nov. 29, 2025

For instance, it would be easy to get tunnel vision and focus on preparing for water scarcity, only to accidentally make a town more vulnerable to flooding in the process, Swain pointed out.

From Salon Jan. 14, 2025

Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed, even Percy.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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