blindside

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindside
Verb
  • And the offensive operation looked much smoother, as Payton meshed the Colts to death and befuddled their defense on a second-quarter touchdown in which tight end Adam Trautman split out wide.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Stainton Williams has been similarly befuddled by his interactions with Citizens.
    Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And aren’t our real-life romantic complications bewildering enough?
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Its ginormous investments in higher-value, tech-heavy sectors from smartphones to autos to semiconductors to biotechnology are disrupting the global landscape at bewildering speed.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • High levels of improper payments made across Medicaid services, which some conservative groups and lawmakers say demonstrate a need to shake up the system and improve efficiency, has become a hot topic.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • What’s more, 49 percent have given up on existing partnerships due to the double-digit tariff increases on trade partners, which Agiloft said suggests that American firms that are particularly exposed to international sourcing are shaking up sourcing significantly.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There doesn’t seem to be anything untoward or disconcerting about this interest in physical health and well-being.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The subject appears to have been blown away by time, just like Yugoslav literature was when Tanja was supposed to be teaching it.
    Sara Stridsberg September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The snug drawstring closure and four fixed buckles that attach to each chair leg help keep the cover from blowing away in the wind while keeping dirt and debris out.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The dynamic and popular preacher discomfited many in his parish with his increasingly pointed critiques of inequities and corruption in the city.
    Time, Time, 22 July 2025
  • From this chamber poured a seemingly incessant stream of sordid details, discomfiting puzzle pieces that added up to a portrait of a man who used his fame and fortune to reduce his female victims to chattel.
    Marco della Cava, USA Today, 3 July 2025
Verb
  • For nearly 20 years, astronomers have been perplexed by the strange disk of dust and debris circling Fomalhaut, a bright star just 25 light-years from Earth.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Many historians have been perplexed by how such a seemingly simple man as Shakespeare could have written works of such grandeur and depth.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • What was meant to be constructive ends up muddled.
    George Bradt, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But the Royals and Guardians play each other this week, which muddles up the math a little bit (especially if Kansas City wins the series and hops the Guardians for second place).
    Christian Romo, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Blindside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindside. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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