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Recent Examples of bleary Underneath my soaked baseball cap, my eyes are dark and bleary, my face stubbled and worn. Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 These people have already seen each other bleary eyed and mussed (and would probably overlook a little grocery-list making or other multitasking). Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011 Gennaro, his eyes still red and bleary, has come home with track marks on his arms. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024 Deir al-Balah, Gaza CNN — Abu Mohammed stands with red, bleary eyes. Abeer Salman, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bleary
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Adjective
  • Some victims are already tired of fighting this fight.
    Ashley Belanger – May 19, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025
  • Susan Shalabi was exhausted - tired of traveling halfway around the world from Amman to Asuncion, tired of fighting against the soccer establishment.
    Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • This granular visibility transforms sustainability from a vague corporate initiative into precise, actionable intelligence, enabling manufacturers to make targeted improvements that collectively drive significant environmental impact while enhancing operational efficiency.
    David Ly, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Therapists should be trained to help patients build grit and achieve goals, not just listen passively, offer vague reassurances, or affirm every feeling.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Some of them wanted to dance, some spent time with their families, others just looked exhausted.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • But now, a quieter trend is taking hold in exhausted households nationwide: revenge meals.
    Christine Michel Carter, Parents, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • This Week: May 19-25, 2025 As the moon continues to wane from being full last week, the night skies darken enough to find faint stars and constellations.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The movie itself is something of a trip; everything feels coated in a faint, menacing sheen of unreality, as if a slasher movie were just a wild twist or two away.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Upgrade Lounge will be open in the mornings from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm ET, and again in the evenings from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm ET—but weary travelers who miss these windows can still relax in the lounge’s cushy couches and swivel chairs outside of operating hours.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025
  • Now, the Entity intends to annihilate humanity in four days unless it can be taken offline by a key that accesses a gizmo in the Arctic Sea that connects to a whatsit that Ving Rhames’s weary Luther is attempting to invent from a makeshift hospital bed somewhere in the subway tunnels of London.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The image is hazy because the low light and long exposures can add digital noise to Perseverance's images.
    Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 16 May 2025
  • Skyscrapers towered over a hazy, Saharan landscape — a vibrant melting pot of modernist and historical sites and structures, situated on a confluence of the Nile River.
    Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 16 May 2025

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“Bleary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleary. Accessed 30 May. 2025.

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