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as in blindfold
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as in provincial
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Recent Examples of blindfolded
This suggests that pitch competitions can be compared with beauty pageants with blindfolded judges.
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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
Their bodies were found wrapped in plastic, blindfolded, bound and gagged on a farm in March 1985.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
In the clip, Jess led her blindfolded boyfriend outdoors, where a celebration full of food, balloons and friends and family awaited.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
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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
Their bodies were found wrapped in plastic, blindfolded, bound and gagged on a farm in March 1985.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
In the clip, Jess led her blindfolded boyfriend outdoors, where a celebration full of food, balloons and friends and family awaited.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindfolded
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Segovia, a romantic hilltop city in the country’s largest region, Castilla y León has the Antonio Machado House-Museum, a prime example of early 1900s provincial Castillian living, named after the Spanish poet who lived there.—
Jessica Benavides Canepa,
AFAR Media,
4 June 2025
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Most of the smoke reaching the American Midwest has been coming from fires northwest of the provincial capital of Winnipeg in Manitoba.—
Steve Karnowski,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2025
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But the Islanders, at another unique if less delicate intersection in franchise history, needed a fresh and collaborative perspective — especially after spending the first quarter of this century as the most insular team in the league.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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According to the study, many insular or island duck species had reduced flying abilities.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2025
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But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Mar. 2025
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While the show has been dinged since its earliest days for having a blinkered or inaccurate depiction of its Chicago environs, that tends to matter most to critics from Chicago.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
27 July 2024
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Yet somehow, all these factors, seemingly easily translatable across the world’s cuisines, has led to an intensely parochial guide.—
Tulasi Srinivas,
The Conversation,
3 June 2025
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This is a parochial political world, overshadowed by the federal bureaucracy.—
Cuneyt Dil,
Axios,
25 Nov. 2024
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At times, some say, the agency has been too hidebound.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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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
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The real challenge is whether leadership is willing to preemptively invest in governance protocols before the need becomes reactionary.—
Manish Gupta,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Never mind the French Revolution, the bête noire of reactionary thinkers: Moldbug believed that the English and American Revolutions had gone too far.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Ethical awareness can help employees at all levels identify when a product or decision might cause harm, be biased or infringe upon privacy.—
Kumar Abhishek Narayan,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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No other president in our history would have used such blatantly biased information to prove an imaginary point.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
27 May 2025
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Nawrocki, a conservative historian and amateur boxer who was backed by PiS, had presented the vote as a referendum on Tusk's 18-month-old government.—
Anna Magdalena Lubowicka,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
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The attacks from Trump and his allies on Leo and the Federalist Society reflect rifts between the populist Right and the conservative legal establishment.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
3 June 2025
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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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