"narrow-sighted" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1853, Andrew Jackson Downing ·, “The New-York Park”, in Rural Essays, page 148",
          "text": "But few of those who see that incongruity, know that it was dictated by the narrow-sighted frugality of the common council who were its building committee, and who determined that it would be useless to waste margle on the rear of the City-Hall, \"since that side would only be seen by persons living in the suburbs.\"",
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          "ref": "1983, Brian Hindley, State Investment Companies in Western Europe, page 23",
          "text": "Presumably in such an approach it is not important to attempt to minimise the costs of “narrow-sighted rationalisation' and irrelevant or impossible to monitor the performance of a state investment company.",
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          "ref": "1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget, Views and Estimates of Committees of the House, page 6",
          "text": "Those involved in producing food and fiber in the United States simply cannot withstand another round of narrow-sighted budget negotiations which leaves them in an even more financially precarious position.",
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          "ref": "2003, Lisa Rodensky, The Crime in Mind, page 120",
          "text": "And if I were capable of that narrow-sighted joy on Adam's behalf, I should still know he was not the man to feel it for himself: he would have shaken his head at such a sentiment, and said, “ Evil's evil, and sorrow's sorrow, and you can't alter its nature by wrapping it up in other words.\"",
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          "ref": "2006, Per Davidsson, Researching Entrepreneurship, page 171",
          "text": "In this perspective, chasing the truth about what category creates most jobs internally is narrow-sighted.",
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          "ref": "2020, Emily Balcetis, Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, page 140",
          "text": "Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but industry analysts surmise that one key factor in Crumbs's initial success was also the reason for its fall from glory: a narrow-sighted focus on the sale of a single product—those cupcakes.",
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        "Lacking perspective; Overly focused on one aspect."
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