1
: one that blinks
especially
: a light that flashes off and on as a warning or a signal
2
a
b
: a cloth hood with shades projecting at the sides of the eye openings used on skittish racehorses
—usually used in plural
3
Examples of blinker in a Sentence
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Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
Traffic camera footage shows what police believe to be Russell’s car slowing down with its blinkers on and then stopping alongside the interstate.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
Angel of Empire is the third choice at 7-2 and will wear blinkers to keep him focused.
—Beth Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
After the filly’s second-place finish March 25 in the Fair Grounds Oaks, Walsh made the decision to add blinkers to Pretty Mischievous before the Kentucky Oaks.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2023
Potter and another officer pulled Wright over for having a blinker on in the wrong turn lane, expired tags and an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
No blinker needed, just a friendly wave.
—Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 4 Nov. 2020
The driver shut off his blinker, turned our way and picked us up.
—Jon Gluck, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
The Audi mirrors reflect a little chunk of rear hip and two lanes on either side, all steady and ready for your blinker.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2022
Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
Lloyd, the boomer, is well-meaning, kind, liberal, and blinkered.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
But a meme is just more data, blinkered and bastardized; one thing that cannot be information is a work of art.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
But for all her father’s righteous resistance to authority, his parenting was by turns blinkered, oppressive and physically abusive.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
Whether we are also meant to see her as blinkered (as if faith and science are mutually exclusive) is less clear at that point.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
While many of us may be blinkered by our loyalty to past experience, there are those able to see—and anticipate—beyond these limitations.
—John Vaillant, Time, 7 June 2023
But perspectives that seem blinkered at best and calculating at worst in the original series — usually attributed to these older women — become grimly legible because of their backstories.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
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.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
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Noun
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Traffic camera footage from last Thursday shows what police believe to be Russell's red Mercedes slowing down along the highway with its blinkers on before making a stop.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
Traffic camera footage shows what police believe to be Russell’s car slowing down with its blinkers on and then stopping alongside the interstate.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
Angel of Empire is the third choice at 7-2 and will wear blinkers to keep him focused.
—Beth Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
After the filly’s second-place finish March 25 in the Fair Grounds Oaks, Walsh made the decision to add blinkers to Pretty Mischievous before the Kentucky Oaks.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2023
Potter and another officer pulled Wright over for having a blinker on in the wrong turn lane, expired tags and an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
No blinker needed, just a friendly wave.
—Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 4 Nov. 2020
The driver shut off his blinker, turned our way and picked us up.
—Jon Gluck, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
The Audi mirrors reflect a little chunk of rear hip and two lanes on either side, all steady and ready for your blinker.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2022
Verb
Obtuse with innocence, blinkered by a lifetime of dissimulation before authority, E was slow to realize that many of these men—including his brother—were homosexual.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
Lloyd, the boomer, is well-meaning, kind, liberal, and blinkered.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
But a meme is just more data, blinkered and bastardized; one thing that cannot be information is a work of art.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
But for all her father’s righteous resistance to authority, his parenting was by turns blinkered, oppressive and physically abusive.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
Whether we are also meant to see her as blinkered (as if faith and science are mutually exclusive) is less clear at that point.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
While many of us may be blinkered by our loyalty to past experience, there are those able to see—and anticipate—beyond these limitations.
—John Vaillant, Time, 7 June 2023
But perspectives that seem blinkered at best and calculating at worst in the original series — usually attributed to these older women — become grimly legible because of their backstories.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
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.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
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blinker
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blink·er
ˈbliŋ-kər
1
: one that blinks
especially
: a blinking light used as a warning or for signaling
2
: blinder
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