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Recent Examples of bleary Weinstein often looked haggard and out of it — unshaven, mouth ajar, eyes bleary. Phoebe Eaton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025 The mere sight of your newborn—through bleary, tired eyes—can muster feelings of wonder and awe. Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 9 Apr. 2025 Laugh Lines: For Movie Buffs P.S. Feeling a little bleary today? Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025 Underneath my soaked baseball cap, my eyes are dark and bleary, my face stubbled and worn. Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bleary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary
Adjective
  • The tired belief that Republicans are better at handling the economy simply isn’t true.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Nations like Ghana are tired of being the world’s dumping ground, although Agbofah is not naïve enough to want the containers to just stop arriving.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • My ideas around him were vague and uninformed, mostly of the stiff host tolerating the younger acts.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The law is vague and broad and included no room for considering the literary merit of the work, and so the result was a wave of book bans across the state.
    Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The joke is that their jobs have left them too exhausted to do much of anything at all.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
  • One is that both sides get exhausted and decide to make peace.
    Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • There have been studies done that show some randomness to red-zone success — or that year-to-year correlation is pretty faint.
    Sam McDowell August 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Monday's haze, while less dramatic, still obscured visibility and left a faint scent of smoke lingering in the air.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Many senior party and military leaders, weary after years of a punishing civil war, were reluctant to go up against the strongest force in the world.
    M. Taylor Fravel, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2025
  • There’s no rest for the weary — or in this case, the Florida Panthers.
    Kaitlyn Pohly, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • The near-surface smoke could dissipate by then, while the sky might still be hazy.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • That memory was hazy, half-lost–until a family photo album resurfaced decades later.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Bleary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleary. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.

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