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Recent Examples of bleary-eyed
Colleagues described a popular chaplain with nicknames for the tiny patients and soothing words for their bleary-eyed parents.
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Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Just as Manning accelerated his growth through obsessive attention to detail, studying defenses and the sleight of hand of play-action artists like Boomer Esiason, Nix is more than willing to get bleary-eyed in the film room or pick the brain of future Hall of Famer Drew Brees.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
After the crowds, bleary-eyed and sated by their Austin euphoria, depart, those who remain are left with mixed feelings about how SXSW has permanently altered the city.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
The Better-Than-PJs Look For bleary-eyed, early morning check-ins when putting together a stylish ensemble seems like a Herculean task, co-ords are your friend.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 17 July 2025
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Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Just as Manning accelerated his growth through obsessive attention to detail, studying defenses and the sleight of hand of play-action artists like Boomer Esiason, Nix is more than willing to get bleary-eyed in the film room or pick the brain of future Hall of Famer Drew Brees.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
After the crowds, bleary-eyed and sated by their Austin euphoria, depart, those who remain are left with mixed feelings about how SXSW has permanently altered the city.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
The Better-Than-PJs Look For bleary-eyed, early morning check-ins when putting together a stylish ensemble seems like a Herculean task, co-ords are your friend.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 17 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary-eyed
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The filmmaker instead evokes his earlier work—namely Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer—combining the mannered, hermetic bleakness of those tales with the befuddled existentialism of a Samuel Beckett play.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Watts then looks toward the Kardashians camera and flashes a befuddled look.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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The boy is stupefied, snot intermingling with the puke dripping from his mouth to his navel.—
Matthew Shen Goodman,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Apparently, none of this was in Guy’s year-in-a-week intensive Talamasca training, since this guy is an absolute dopey beagle in terms of instantly trusting sketchy characters.—
Lily Osler,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2025
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Squishmallows 12-inch Maui the Pineapple Plush for $9 ($8 off): This medium-size plush has a dopey little smile and a green leaf crown, and many very happy customer reviews.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
8 Oct. 2025
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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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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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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater (1937) remains the most famous example—a home literally suspended over a waterfall, designed in reverence to its rocky surroundings.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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However, the company has had a rocky year.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 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 18 Nov. 2025.
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