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purblind

[pur-blahynd] / ˈpɜrˌblaɪnd /


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When governments and their advisers are, as matter of course, using AI to improve their decision-making, expect fewer purblind, tunnel-visioned strategic decisions based on wishful thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

The ECB's purblind refusal to reveal anything about the trip, as if it involved some top-secret military manoeuvres rather than just some abseiling and hiking, has goaded the media into a suspicious reaction.

From The Guardian Oct. 19, 2010

A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Those advantages become troubles as soon as the purblind wearer moves around or deals with moving objects.

From Time Magazine Archive

They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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