blindsided
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Jordan Firstman’s sincere, funny and genuinely moving debut feature has him playing a queer New York underground party promoter blindsided by the arrival of the 10-year-old son previously unknown to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Flynn later appeared to be blindsided when committee members quizzed him about the story.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
If you have a problem with being blindsided by requests for money, I’d cut ties now.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Industry leaders and lobbyists from Houston and Midland, Texas, to Washington say they were blindsided by President Trump’s brazen push into Venezuela, which is home to some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I never thought I’d see the day you’d be blindsided by something on the Current.”
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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