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Recent Examples of bleary-eyed
These are very tasty, but still get you bleary-eyed.
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Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
As dawn broke, a posse of bleary-eyed public servants, credentials on lanyards dangling over their sweatshirts, came out to meet the people.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
Childhood visits to Kenya were a mission in themselves—three days of connecting flights and interminable transits in Athens, Cairo, and Nairobi before arriving, bleary-eyed and bad-tempered, in Mombasa.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
While most Americans either followed the tallies into the bleary-eyed early-morning hours or awoke to news of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat, people in much of the world were in daytime work mode when the race was called.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
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Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
As dawn broke, a posse of bleary-eyed public servants, credentials on lanyards dangling over their sweatshirts, came out to meet the people.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
Childhood visits to Kenya were a mission in themselves—three days of connecting flights and interminable transits in Athens, Cairo, and Nairobi before arriving, bleary-eyed and bad-tempered, in Mombasa.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
While most Americans either followed the tallies into the bleary-eyed early-morning hours or awoke to news of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat, people in much of the world were in daytime work mode when the race was called.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary-eyed
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Take a recent episode about cruises, which featured Ben Stiller, Quinta Brunson, and Mulaney’s frequent comedy partner Nick Kroll, along with a befuddled industry expert named Anne Kalosh.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2025
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Black co-stars with Day, Dismukes, and Fineman as the befuddled audience members, loudly chiming in from the front row after every line to reply.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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This is pretty much your standard-issue focus-group scene, with dopey viewers idiotically nitpicking irrelevant details.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Cranston will also reprise his role as Hal, Malcolm's sweet, dopey dad, in the revival.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.—
Jesse Hawley,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2021
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The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.—
Justin Torres,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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That the posing and posturing for the public continued even as the Pentagon descended into turmoil over his rocky leadership seemed to say something, too.—
Jonathan Swan,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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The semi-interred building isn’t really a New York — or a city — thing (except perhaps for the Irish Hunger Memorial, a low box that wears a chunk of rocky countryside on its shoulder).—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2025
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Several years from now, however, if scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their way, some chinook salmon will be chasing a very different scent: the rich, beery bouquet of brewer’s yeast.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 July 2023
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In a beery bromance Instagram video posted on Monday (May 15), Combs taught Sheeran how to shotgun a beer.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
16 May 2023
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“Bleary-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleary-eyed. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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