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Recent Examples of bleary-eyed
When a system is melting down at 3 a.m. and the on-call engineer is bleary-eyed, that’s when your tool’s UX truly matters.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Every so often, the bleary-eyed budget chiefs, Sen. Ed Hooper of Palm Harbor and Rep. Lawrence McClure of Dover, appeared publicly for brief meetings in the state Capitol to ratify decisions that had already made in private.
—Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2025
Now, mornings pass into nights as Vest emerges bleary-eyed from sewing sessions that often last longer than her bouldering sessions.
—Outside Online, 17 May 2025
But following every night of ecstasy comes a lonely, bleary-eyed morning-after.
—Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Every so often, the bleary-eyed budget chiefs, Sen. Ed Hooper of Palm Harbor and Rep. Lawrence McClure of Dover, appeared publicly for brief meetings in the state Capitol to ratify decisions that had already made in private.
—Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2025
Now, mornings pass into nights as Vest emerges bleary-eyed from sewing sessions that often last longer than her bouldering sessions.
—Outside Online, 17 May 2025
But following every night of ecstasy comes a lonely, bleary-eyed morning-after.
—Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary-eyed
Adjective
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To my right, a man in a tracksuit looked befuddled.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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The show provided a side of the singer few had seen — a bit doddering, sometimes befuddled and the source of the series’ comedy.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Pritzker and dopey Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have turned Chicago into Kabul during Joe Biden’s criminal withdrawal, or Saigon during the Tet Offensive.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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To those who dismissed the film as simplistic and dopey, well, that was part of its eternal appeal.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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His family lives in a two-story gray home in Washington City, a community nestled among Utah’s soaring red, rocky cliffs.—
David DeMille,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Our fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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 Sep. 2025.
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