blindfolded

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Recent Examples of blindfolded Jeremy Levick gently guiding a blindfolded Mulaney around the stage, and Mulaney being a real grump about it. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 May 2025 Tightly pulling a black bag over information that could protect a child is like asking parents and pediatricians to drive blindfolded. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2025 This suggests that pitch competitions can be compared with beauty pageants with blindfolded judges. Dileep Rao, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025 He was then taken away, handcuffed and blindfolded, and put into a military vehicle. Meredith Kile, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blindfolded
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Adjective
  • But in addition to the provincial capitals of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón de la Plana, and the pretty little beach towns along the Costa Blanca, Valencia is also home to thousands of farms.
    Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke recently about plans to speed up construction on one of his country's dams, and invited provincial discussions on how to increase the country's water storage capacity after India suspended the treaty.
    Betsy Joles, NPR, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • The film’s insular focus on Sonny and Joshua generates an atmosphere of isolation in the paddock, an us-versus-them mentality that every team and driver is out for themselves.
    Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • Reductions were also seen in parts of the brainstem; the cerebellum, which is important for motor control and coordination; and other areas like the orbitofrontal and insular regions—both of which are crucial for emotion regulation, decision-making and social behavior.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Working in the wedding-and-a-funeral formula, Burnett spins a comic-tragic yarn about Pierce (Everett Silas), a kind of blinkered fool, who works at his parent’s dry cleaners.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
  • But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Brian Colbert ran on a parochial platform focused on garden-variety local issues.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • In his quest for a definitive biography of Joyce as a cosmopolitan artist, above the parochial fray, Ellmann downplayed Joyce’s interest in politics.
    Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • At times, some say, the agency has been too hidebound.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • That gives them flexibility and the ability to take risks that can’t be made in more hidebound traditional schools.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • What choice would a young reactionary iconoclast have but to veer right?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • The Sun Devils were instead forced to punt and a reactionary firestorm began on social media.
    Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The case of Amazon’s AI recruiting tool, which was found to disadvantage female applicants due to biased training data, remains a cautionary example.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The new instructions tell it to assume some media information is biased.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Grandma knows how to make a good first impression, and these old-fashioned recipes are the perfect place to start.
    Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
  • College sports fandom has long been led by old-fashioned booster clubs and message boards that popped up 20 years ago.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 11 July 2025

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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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