as in parochial
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Recent Examples of blinkered
With her big inward eyes and perpetual glower, Northam effectively conveys Elsa’s restless, blinkered life.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
Then there was the museum’s debut survey of the film industry, which came in for a drubbing for what was perceived to be its anxious, overcompensating political correctness, coupled with a blinkered vision that paid little mind to the Hollywood studio system and its founders.
—Gary Baum For The Hollywood Reporter, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2024
His was a kinder form of the historical determinism of a Morgan or a Grant perhaps, but no less blinkered and time-bound.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
In Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II, the Dartmouth literary scholar James A.W. Heffernan proposes that academic and popular histories, diaries, and journalistic accounts offer only a blinkered view of the past.
—Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
Then there was the museum’s debut survey of the film industry, which came in for a drubbing for what was perceived to be its anxious, overcompensating political correctness, coupled with a blinkered vision that paid little mind to the Hollywood studio system and its founders.
—Gary Baum For The Hollywood Reporter, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2024
His was a kinder form of the historical determinism of a Morgan or a Grant perhaps, but no less blinkered and time-bound.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
In Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II, the Dartmouth literary scholar James A.W. Heffernan proposes that academic and popular histories, diaries, and journalistic accounts offer only a blinkered view of the past.
—Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinkered
Adjective
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And yet conceding those messy parochial disputes to powers outside the university seems to some to represent no less of a crisis.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Nation-states and their parochial identities would give way to an interdependent and cosmopolitan future.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The insular community’s yeshivas, which rely heavily on taxpayer dollars, teach religious lessons in Yiddish and Hebrew for most of the school day, and offer little instruction in English or math.—
Eliza Shapiro,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Piper’s preference for the local culture over her family’s insular wealth evokes Fred Hechinger’s Quinn from that same year, and both Rick and Victoria come across in different ways as stand-ins for Tanya.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The head of the religious school was among those killed, said provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif.—
Reuters,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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The necklace may have been worn by someone in the Lusatian culture, or during the early days of the West Baltic Kurgan culture, according to the provincial office.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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With the trade deadline just a few days away, Durant believes that other teams could make reactionary moves to this deal.—
Matt Levine,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Those fired were not hidebound deep state bureaucrats merely slurping from the federal trough.—
Southern California News Group Editorial Board,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2025
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Belatedly, political classes (and some of Japan’s huge industrial conglomerates) are realizing the economic value, employment potential and soft power impact of a less hidebound and risk-averse film and TV industry.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
3 Nov. 2024
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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinkered. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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