blind
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The study used a double blind design, meaning neither the participants nor the experimenter knew which substance had been administered during a particular session.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
"I fought all alone," says Amal, bursting into tears as she says her ex-husband hired several lawyers but she could not afford legal representation, and her family turned a blind eye to the situation.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
By 2018, he told a lender he had amassed a net worth of some $5.5 million, not including millions of dollars in assets he and his wife had moved into a blind trust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
When Madison’s Frances goes on a blind date, her online match says he appreciates that the internet makes it simpler for singles to pair up “within their own vector.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, I reminded myself.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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It’s a statement that they lowered the blinds twice, and then they told the media to leave.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
I joke that I like to think I can understand when my cat’s meow is asking me to open the bedroom window blinds, which is where her desired bird-watching perch is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Journalists on the old plane out of Ankara were also told to keep their window blinds down -- a step normally reserved for war zones -- furthering suspicions of security concerns.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
No amount of darkness, earplugs or blackout blinds can entirely silence it.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
And then, stepping into the house, Emma noticed that the living room curtains were still drawn tight across the windows, and so were the blinds on the bay window at the back of the house.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Borthwick played a blinder with his selection against the Wallabies, who delivered as poor a performance as I have seen from them.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
Spain's Primavera has pulled a blinder, booking three of pop's biggest wavemakers - Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
Most shooters compete with a blinder on one eye to keep the muscles relaxed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
He now values blind loyalty and even blinder sycophancy more than electoral appeal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
This was the end of her career for sure, but suddenly that didn’t seem so important because her ribs were aching, and she had a blinder of a pressure headache coming on.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Of course he is Ghanaian and the fact that his younger brother Nico is playing for Spain does not make the blindest bit of difference.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022
“My presence in Washington wouldn’t have made the blindest bit of difference,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
But there is a saying that Carlos, a man of many sayings, sometimes applied to Jorge: ‘‘The blindest man is the one who does not want to see.’’
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
But unless you're going to require journalists and bloggers to embrace such a pettifogging regime too, you're pottering down the blindest of alleys, regulating human nature until your wig falls off.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2012
It took a long time for me to disengage myself from this excitement, and on the blindest, most visceral level, I never really have, and never will.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that sun glare had blinded both pilots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A senior role in the legal profession, he said, might have blinded him to the everyday friction of legal workflows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Are investors too blinded by AI that they’re ignoring opportunity elsewhere?
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Researchers report the first blinded, randomized, sham-controlled evidence that a procedure called duodenal mucosal resurfacing may offer a safe and lasting way to maintain weight loss without ongoing medication.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
People shouted below, and the light bouncing off the glass castle blinded her.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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Did the fun of the film festival circuit eventually become a blinding limelight, through which Adrian couldn’t see past as he got older?
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
If he did, he would follow it with a blinding save.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
This exciting nutrition system may include fun things like nearly blinding your boss with direct sunlight at an open-air business lunch, or shoveling food in your face from 5:10 to 5:11 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
He flicked on his high beams only to watch them bounce back as a blinding wall of light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Christopher felt it before he heard it: a sudden searing, blinding heat, and then a roar, inches from his left shoulder.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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