blindside
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Tiny funds tend not to last long so the wave of launches this year and next is almost guaranteed to bring hundreds of closures that can blindside unsuspecting owners with tax bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Raffi Quirke, a boyhood Sale fan, signed off before a summer move to Newcastle with a blindside dart and cute chip to set up one of Arron Reed's two tries.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Kabeya's absence gives Bristol teenager Demelza Short, who made her Test debut in the second row against Scotland, a start at blindside flanker.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Deaves will start at openside flanker alongside blindside Alex Mann and Aaron Wainwright at No.8.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
So, apparently when Grandma said she’d take care of it, she meant she’d blindside Dad and tell him just moments before we got in the cab.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
If you have a problem with being blindsided by requests for money, I’d cut ties now.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nik said the couple felt "blindsided" by the fact that their sperm donor could withdraw consent at that stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"I felt so stupid. I trusted and I cared about people that did bad things. I don't ever want to be as blindsided as I was by them not being who they said they were."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Furious at being blindsided by the appointment, Bush dodged Groves’s brusque queries about the state of the project and dashed off a prickly letter to Stimson’s assistant, Harvey Bundy.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
It’s more than fair to say that this dust-up isn’t a new development that is blindsiding investors.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
"Manage expectations, because this is going to happen, rather than just blindsiding us out of nowhere, which is what has happened," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024
“It’s been awful. It’s been blindsiding, it’s been a shock because I personally love the L.A. Times and I loved working for you guys and ... that’s gone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
It did this without warning or consulting NPR, blindsiding its leadership.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2023
Reckitt recently raised prices on some formulas, blindsiding some parents already frustrated with the struggle to find certain brands.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
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