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Recent Examples of blindside
Local officials were blindsided last week by reports that the Trump administration is considering detaining thousands of immigrants in an industrial warehouse in the town of Social Circle, about an hour east of Atlanta.
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Lautaro Grinspan, AJC.com, 3 Jan. 2026
Oversharing online can blur the line between connection and overexposure, leaving some feeling uncomfortable and others blindsided.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
There are cheerful barging amateurs, happy to be bounced about, and there are prowling malevolences, waiting for the moment to blindside someone or chuck an elbow in their face.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
Which is why his October 14 death at the age of 51, following a private battle with pancreatic cancer, blindsided the world.
—Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
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Lautaro Grinspan, AJC.com, 3 Jan. 2026
Oversharing online can blur the line between connection and overexposure, leaving some feeling uncomfortable and others blindsided.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
There are cheerful barging amateurs, happy to be bounced about, and there are prowling malevolences, waiting for the moment to blindside someone or chuck an elbow in their face.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
Which is why his October 14 death at the age of 51, following a private battle with pancreatic cancer, blindsided the world.
—Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindside
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He was less intimidated by its befuddling organization and had grown accustomed to the antiquated spellings and the nearly illegible, unpunctuated scribblings of harried seventeenth-century officials.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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And any Rams fan who was around for that game probably remembers Dieter Brock, and the irony that the quarterback the Rams brought in from the Canadian Football League was befuddled by winds that reached up to 23 mph, to go with 36 degree temperatures and 26-degree wind chill.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
17 Jan. 2026
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Oswalt confesses being bewildered by Bamford at first.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2026
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No matter what the reasons, Belichick, his former Patriots players and NFL fans, are bewildered by the snub.—
Merlisa Lawrence Corbett,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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That included roughly two years ago after Duke’s loss at Wake Forest, when Blue Devils player Kyle Filipowski was shaken up after a Demon Deacons fan collided with him, while Jared McCain’s exit to the tunnel was briefly blocked by a Wake Forest fan.—
Aaron Beard,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Several fan-favorite characters have taken their leave amid the pressures of love, duty, and society, and each exit has shaken up the delicate order of the ton.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
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The picture exudes both grace and vulnerability, and hints at imperfection by way of a disconcerting, coral-like wrinkle that mars the foot’s heel.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
20 Dec. 2025
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Still, many of the shifts constitute a disconcerting brain drain.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
8 Dec. 2025
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Go for the Chicken Parm, on another note, and be blown away by an award-winning cutlet with a side of savory garlic linguine.—
USA TODAY NETWORK,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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That structure, not shockingly, was blown away by a blizzard.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Scenes are rendered with an diorama-esque economy of mise en scene that feels unreal, almost game-like — an aesthetic met with meaning in the film’s final act — and Nagahisa and Takeda take every opportunity to present the city from a different, often discomfiting angle.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2026
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As Russia’s closest ally, China would not break with Moscow by endorsing an unconditional cease-fire, but it, too, would be discomfited by having to explain this choice.—
Thomas Wright,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2025
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The moment became viral on social media, with some X users perplexed at the interview.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
11 Feb. 2026
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That’s perplexing to Alvarez and Oakley, given that Cal State tuition is still relatively low, despite recent annual tuition hikes.—
Cal Matters,
Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Ken Holland, general manager, B Holland arrived on the scene of a muddling franchise that had lost four straight first-round series to the same opponent.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The new estimate was based on accounting for some of those muddling data points.—
Andrew Joseph,
STAT,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Blindside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindside. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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