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Recent Examples of bleary-eyed
Of course, as any bleary-eyed obsessive knows, the real guy is most likely dead at this point, but don’t call filmmaker Charlie Shackleton late to the game.
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Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Listen to this article For the first six years of his head coaching career, Tom Craft arrived at Palomar College’s football practices bleary-eyed and covered in plaster and drywall dust.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
These are very tasty, but still get you bleary-eyed.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
As dawn broke, a posse of bleary-eyed public servants, credentials on lanyards dangling over their sweatshirts, came out to meet the people.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
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Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Listen to this article For the first six years of his head coaching career, Tom Craft arrived at Palomar College’s football practices bleary-eyed and covered in plaster and drywall dust.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
These are very tasty, but still get you bleary-eyed.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
As dawn broke, a posse of bleary-eyed public servants, credentials on lanyards dangling over their sweatshirts, came out to meet the people.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary-eyed
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Inspired by the historical figure known as Lambert Simnel, THE PRETENDER (Knopf, 471 pp., $30) is a rollicking account of a befuddled boy’s pillar-to-post existence as a political pawn.—
Alida Becker,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Then Aunt Phoebe joins in the gaslighting, and a befuddled Lydia is ushered away for some dinner.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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Yes, Agathe gets caught up in a love triangle with the dopey but appealing Félix and the perma-mad but very alluring Oliver, and of course her writer’s block ebbs and flows, all of it bolstered by the positively Regency-perfect surroundings, but there’s more to it.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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Fortunately, that’s no longer the case, thanks largely to the leadership of Andrew Cuomo, who did a great job except for the dopey AirTrain, which was correctly killed off by his successor.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.—
Jesse Hawley,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2021
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The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.—
Justin Torres,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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Shot in Galicia, a landscape of rocky coasts and salty-blue air, this loosely biographical third feature from Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón, part of the Cannes competition slate, has a wistful, earthy glow.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
23 May 2025
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But Beijing is gearing up for a rocky path in relations, and negotiations, ahead.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
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Several years from now, however, if scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their way, some chinook salmon will be chasing a very different scent: the rich, beery bouquet of brewer’s yeast.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 July 2023
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In a beery bromance Instagram video posted on Monday (May 15), Combs taught Sheeran how to shotgun a beer.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
16 May 2023
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“Bleary-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleary-eyed. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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