blinder

noun

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blind·er | \ ˈblīn-dər

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plural blinders

Definition of blinder

1 : either of two flaps on a horse's bridle to keep it from seeing objects at its sides

2 blinders plural : a limitation or obstruction to sight or discernment

3 British, informal : something (such as an athletic play) dazzlingly excellent or remarkable Andrew Chidgey (58) held the Stapleton innings together and Ghulam Shabbir briefly threatened with a lively 23 but Timsbury held some important catches, including a blinder from Greg Passingham … — Bath Chronicle

Examples of blinder in a Sentence

Their team played a blinder to beat us in the closing seconds of the match.

Recent Examples on the Web By necessity, aggressively racing toward an end-goal forces us to put our blinders on. — Alain Sylvain, Quartz at Work, "Is our misguided affair with agility putting speed ahead of good work?," 17 Dec. 2019 If the Target in Lake Forest has a sale on earmuffs and blinders, Nagy would be wise to fill a shopping cart or two. — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, "Matt Nagy’s last-place Bears aren’t meeting expectations — and the fan base is enraged. How will he respond?," 31 Oct. 2019 Hey, there’s a lot of money in blinders: Mohammed bin Salman said recently that the fund was on track to managing $600 billion in assets in 2020. — Wired, "The Uber CEO's Mistaken Notion of What a Mistake Is," 11 Nov. 2019 Those eye blinders that racehorses wear so they don’t get distracted? — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, "How to watch the next Democratic debate," 14 Oct. 2019 This country loves to see itself through the blinders of platitudes like those espoused by DeGeneres this week. — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, "Stop Trying To Sanitize The Image Of A War Criminal," 10 Oct. 2019 All that brazenness finally drove the left to drop its multicultural blinders and accept the truth of renegade Chinese oppression. — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, "How China ‘Woke’ America," 3 Oct. 2019 When the trolls come out on social media, celebrities typically (and understandably) put on virtual blinders and ignore cruel comments. — Marci Robin, Allure, "Tori Spelling Was Mom-Shamed for Letting Her Daughters Wear Makeup and Have Pink Hair," 1 Oct. 2019 The author is quick to point out that these anthropologists still had their blinders. — Rachel Newcomb, Washington Post, "The social scientists who transformed how we think about race and gender," 16 Aug. 2019

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