blind
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“L.A. has been flying blind when it comes to measuring the impacts of the dollars spent,” said Cole, a Pasadena City Council member.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Love may be blind, but your eyes should be wide open when it comes to your financial future as a couple.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Minnesota’s blind eye toward the Quality Learing Center fraud was shameless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
She speaks mainly Spanish and is the primary caretaker for her husband, Nemorio, who is blind.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
She kept her blind eyes drilled on Ivan for several breaths, neither of them moving or making a sound.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
All across town, they were behind drawn blinds and locked doors and padlocked gates.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Bold Coast Charter’s trips allow participants to land on an island and spend a couple of hours in blinds to see and photograph at close range puffins gathered on rocks above their nesting burrows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Across the empty streets, across the square, they were just pulling the blinds up at the bank.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
So far, so successful, with senior figures in government believing their foreign policy guru, Blair-era adviser Jonathan Powell, is "playing a blinder".
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
Most shooters compete with a blinder on one eye to keep the muscles relaxed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
Ten Hag played a blinder with his gameplan and his players executed it perfectly.
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
“I may be blinder than any bat, but I got me a government-issue rifle. It was the one my husband, Mr. Hamline, carried when he fought with Captain Lilly’s Eighteenth Indiana Light Artillery at Chicamauga.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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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
In New York, though, no one seems to take the blindest bit of notice.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017
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
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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Being so empathetic toward one set of people that you are blinded to everyone else, she has written, “isn’t just misguided, it’s evil.”
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
Jenner-Fust said the homeowners were "quite surprised" by the discovery, who had been "blinded by familiarity" after seven decades.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Never mind—the FDA claims patients in the trial weren’t truly blinded because side effects would have caused them to suspect they were receiving a placebo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
His limbs were shaking, a terrible stitch was beginning in his side, and the sweat that kept dropping into his eyes blinded them and made them smart.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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Garcia is proven at the top level and enters as the favourite, bringing blinding hand speed and a fight-ending left hook.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
He fixates on bright, blinding objects while turning away from self-reflection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
This exciting nutrition system may include fun things like nearly blinding your boss with direct sunlight at an open-air business lunch, or shoveling food in your face from 5:10 to 5:11 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
The ninja threw her whole body into a blinding spin, swinging her right foot up in a high arc.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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