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blind

[blahynd] / blaɪnd /






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Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced the seizure and stated there would be no leniency or turning a blind eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

One shot in particular proves you can see everything while being blind to what you’re actually watching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Chris, who now works with adoption and fostering services in Northern Ireland, says the lack of available information for adoptees is "a huge blind spot".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

He pointed to a street ahead of them, with eyes that were red and so fixed that they looked blind.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

It’s a statement that they lowered the blinds twice, and then they told the media to leave.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Bell recommends renter-friendly products such as stick-on tiles for the kitchen, suction storage products in the bathroom and expandable blinds that can be fitted without drilling.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

It helps them hide if needed, it blinds predators and attracts like minds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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

All the windows were covered with blinds, so they couldn’t see in.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"They didn't recruit me but I think they played an absolutely blinder and they deserve it at this stage," he added.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

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

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

One teenager was whittling at a lump and not paying me the blindest bit of notice.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

But in another alteration, Damon’s Odysseus fires an arrow into the already blinded Cyclops’ eye as he escapes, giving the monster’s father, Poseidon, a new reason to make his journey home miserable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The risk was especially high at night and in poor weather, when they were blinded by the glare of headlights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 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

The bathroom light blinded him as though he were a bat flushed from his cave at noon.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

He also lambasted people’s preoccupation with possessing money as warping their imaginations and blinding them to the existence of more fulfilling possibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

When Calum MacDonald visited a bar in Laos he experienced "a blinding kaleidoscopic light" permanently impairing his vision, less than two days after having a drink.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

But for the fashionistas, the Met Gala -- traditionally held on the first Monday in May -- is simply one of the world's top red carpets with blinding star power.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Pet flexed her mother’s fingers, and its gold claws grew in length, the edge on them blinding.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi


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