blink·er
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Definition of blinker
(Entry 1 of 2)
2a
: blinder sense 1
b
: a cloth hood with shades projecting at the sides of the eye openings used on skittish racehorses
—usually used in plural
blinker
verb
blinkered; blinkering; blinkers
Definition of blinker (Entry 2 of 2)
: to put blinders on
Examples of blinker in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
In the early morning hours of Memorial Day in 2017, a police officer in Florida observed a black Mercedes stopped on the road in the right lane with its brake lights on and the right blinker still blinking.
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Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, "Tiger Woods' history with Ambien, details of latest car crash raise questions," 7 Mar. 2021
The tree of Life also includes oscillators, such as the blinker, and spaceships of various sizes (the glider being the smallest).
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New York Times, "The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life," 23 Dec. 2020
Eric drove a short way, before switching on his blinker and turning right on Lamar Street.
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Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, "Man beaten by San Antonio police officers remains in prison — even after charges against him were dismissed and the officers were fired," 16 Oct. 2020
Trump’s medical advisers are stuck with blinkers on.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, "There Is No Panacea for the Coronavirus Economy," 18 Apr. 2020
Hagman said Volvo's team went into the forest and recorded about 300 sticks breaking to get the source audio file needed for the blinker.
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Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, "Volvo Snapped a Stick for Turn-Signal Sound, Used Human Voices for XC40 EV," 24 Feb. 2020
National star Joel Rosario will replace Golden Gate Fields’ Juan Hernandez in the saddle for the Risen Star Stakes, and Anneau d’Or will race with blinkers for the first time.
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Larry Stumes, SFChronicle.com, "Anneau d’Or heads to New Orleans with Kentucky Derby on trainer’s mind," 5 Feb. 2020
Trainer , who is winning 30% at the meet and four of eight recently, adds blinkers today to keep the horse more involved early.
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Los Angeles Times, "Horse racing newsletter: Golden Gate has gas problem (tee-hee)," 30 Jan. 2020
Writing from the younger woman’s point of view, Reid renders white people whose eagerness to shed their blinkers results in fumbling attempts to identify with black people—as much to burnish their own images as to genuinely connect with others.
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Stephanie Hayes, The Atlantic, "Such a Fun Age Satirizes the White Pursuit of Wokeness," 8 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
In contrast, most blinkered Democrats in swing states — who as radical progressives doubled down on abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, promoting Medicare for all, cancelling student debt, and impeaching Trump — faltered.
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Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, "Trump the Uniter?," 20 Mar. 2020
Some stars’ behavior has come across blinkered and clueless, as when Ellen DeGeneres compared staying in her palatial home to being in jail.
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Carina Chocano, New York Times, "What’s the Point of a Celebrity in a Pandemic?," 6 May 2020
But Flav has brought the instinctual displeasure and distrust of Blexit (blacks exiting the Democratic Party) against Chuck D’s blinkered optimism.
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Armond White, National Review, "Public Enemy Meets the Enemy," 8 Apr. 2020
For years, one of the most common, and most blinkered, arguments against NATO expansion has rested on a single conversation that former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker had with flailing Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990.
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Casey Michel, The New Republic, "NATO Is Expanding, and Everyone Is Curiously Silent," 16 Jan. 2020
That blinkered assumption continues to resonate today, not least among city officials across the continent who felt manipulated by Amazon, according to people familiar with their thinking.
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Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, "Behind Amazon’s HQ2 fiasco, Jeff Bezos wanted incentives like Elon Musk’s," 3 Feb. 2020
Guevara’s disciplinarianism and blinkered devotion to revolution was often on display.
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Washington Post, "Harry Villegas, right-hand man and bodyguard to Che Guevara, dies at 81," 7 Jan. 2020
To many younger Georgians, pro-Stalin views like these are both blinkered and disturbing.
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David Segal, New York Times, "A Monster to History, Stalin Is a Tourist Magnet in His Hometown," 30 June 2019
Deep time makes a mockery of the plantations’ blinkered order; under the ancient canopy, the master’s stride falters and the voices of African hunters and Amerindian priests resound from the depths of unrecorded millenniums.
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New York Times, "Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness," 27 June 2018
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blinker
noun
English Language Learners Definition of blinker
chiefly British
: leather pieces that are placed on either side of a horse's head next to its eyes
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blinker
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blink·er
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Kids Definition of blinker
: a light that blinks to indicate that a vehicle will be turning
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