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bleary

[bleer-ee] / ˈblɪər i /




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Mr. Turturro exudes the bleary exhaustion of a man nursing an epochal hangover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

She was clad in a sweatshirt and bleary from the early hour.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026

Instead, my laptop greeted my bleary eyes with a font of good tidings.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2025

The Atlanta rapper Future and superproducer Metro, each known for dark, bleary styles that defined the 2010s, have had a fruitful collaboration going back more than a decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024

The soldiers’ blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

The meticulousness of Megan’s rhymes, as delivered in the crisp yet chatty flow she’s worked hard to develop, sets her apart from the rappers making blearier, more abstract sounds at the moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

Porto Rico night crowds are no blearier than those of Paris or Pittsburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive




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