blindsided

Nick’s conversations with Kait about religion were frustrating to listen to — he seemed to act blindsided that she didn’t have a strong connection to religion after she articulated her feelings well in an earlier conversation.

Parents said they had been "blindsided" by the move and claimed an initial six-week public consultation was not enough.

The news blindsided U.S. officials who agreed to a deal in May with China to pause the implementation of aggressive tariffs.

During a 90-minute call on Wednesday with executive members of PhRMA, the trade group representing the pharmaceutical industry, some other CEOs were angry and felt blindsided, according to people familiar with the meeting.

Employees at the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, which conducts research on autism, were “blindsided” by the administration’s announcement, according to some CDC employees, who said they weren’t consulted.