blindfold
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The host handed me a blindfold and Bose noise-canceling headphones, playing the hypnotic sounds of a space drum with birds chirping in the distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
One woman I interviewed remembered that while she was blindfolded, she was able to peek under her blindfold and see a tile pattern on the floor.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026
One day, Panahi recalls, Kiarostami drove him out of the city and asked him to wear a blindfold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
He added that his blindfold - the trademark black jihadist flag - was then removed.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024
“Where am I?” repeated Phineas Nigellus, starting to wrestle with the blindfold again.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Players are required to wear blindfolds for fairness.
From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025
But can they be sure, even without their blindfolds?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
The far easier solution is for them to take off their blindfolds and see the full scale of the monstrosity for what it is.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
All it took were Hollywood-trained animals, a set of enormous blindfolds and a willingness to — carefully — nudge one of the planet’s largest land mammals ever so slightly off balance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
And so I slipped the keys within my waistcoat pocket and returned to the house to find blindfolds for the guests.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The mother of the motorist who found the children told Portuguese media that one of the boys said they had been blindfolded and told to look for a hidden toy.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
“The Corrections” limited series comes 25 years after Franzen published his National Book Award-winning novel, which he famously blindfolded himself to finish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026
"It's a bit like playing pin the tail on the donkey with us being partly blindfolded and there being very little donkey left for us to pin the tail on," Sherborne complained.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Both were blindfolded, but Issa recognized his friend’s voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
I figured the guy with the tie must be Mr. Big Bucks Ballard, the jerk who didn’t know how to run the paper mill as well as my father and Ernie Eco could blindfolded.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
I started by blindfolding myself and quickly realized that made my notes incoherent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Japan has accused Russia's security services of blindfolding and restraining one of its diplomats in the eastern city of Vladivostok.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022
And this idea of essentially blindfolding ourselves and pretending like the justice system is the one place in this country where race has no influence whatsoever, where gender and bias mean nothing, that's preposterous.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2022
Evidence in the blindfolding trial has included phone chat messages exchanged by several Carabinieri.
From Fox News ● Feb. 10, 2022
The blindfolding, the walk to the secret entrance, the exhausting climb up countless steps—all of it seemed to pass in one excruciating instant.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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