blind
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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
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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
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
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"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
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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
One teenager was whittling at a lump and not paying me the blindest bit of notice.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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
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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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