How to Use fly blind in a Sentence

fly blind

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  • Their tutors had been more or less flying blind, because there were almost no prior tests from which to teach.
    Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • Without it, companies are flying blind when allocating work between people and agents, and that’s why most AI investments aren’t paying off.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Interest rate hikes remain on the table, at a time when investors are flying blind as the Federal Reserve scales back its communication.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 17 July 2026
  • Without this visibility, security teams are essentially flying blind.
    Ofer Klein, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • On July 4, 1976, as America celebrated its bicentennial, four C-130 aircraft flew blind over the dark waters of the Red Sea and across the Horn of Africa.
    Anne Neuberger, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

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