blinkered
adjective
blink·ered
ˈbliŋ-kərd 
1
: limited in scope or understanding : narrow-minded
2
: fitted with blinders
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Their mini-quests provide a bit of decent action here and there, as well as plenty of principled banter between a blinkered optimist (Lucy) and jaded doomsayer (Ghoul).
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
The strong ensemble includes Odessa A’zion, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, and a revelatory straight-man turn from Josh Hutcherson, but its undeniable center is star and series creator Rachel Sennott, whose performance as the blinkered, ambitious Maia holds these spiraling players together.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
In his letters, Chekhov could sound like Ivan, lambasting the blinkered privilege of Russia’s aristocracy and the state of poverty in which most of the people were mired in.
—Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
The strong ensemble includes Odessa A’zion, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, and a revelatory straight-man turn from Josh Hutcherson, but its undeniable center is star and series creator Rachel Sennott, whose performance as the blinkered, ambitious Maia holds these spiraling players together.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
In his letters, Chekhov could sound like Ivan, lambasting the blinkered privilege of Russia’s aristocracy and the state of poverty in which most of the people were mired in.
—Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blinkered. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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