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as in blindfold
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as in provincial
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Recent Examples of blindfolded
March 22, 2025 Video footage verified by The New York Times appeared to show a fighter from Bara Ibn Malik, an Islamist militia that fights alongside the military, thrashing eight blindfolded men with a hose about 10 miles from the city center.
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Declan Walsh, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Ballal said he was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten while detained in a military facility.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
The soldiers left him blindfolded and handcuffed throughout [the] military base last night.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Per Adra, soldiers subsequently took Ballal, handcuffed and blindfolded, from his home into a military vehicle.
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
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Declan Walsh, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Ballal said he was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten while detained in a military facility.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
The soldiers left him blindfolded and handcuffed throughout [the] military base last night.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Per Adra, soldiers subsequently took Ballal, handcuffed and blindfolded, from his home into a military vehicle.
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindfolded
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The group said that as provincial supervisor in Chicago for the Augustinian order in 2000, Prevost allowed a priest accused of abusing at least 13 minors to live at the Augustinian order’s St. John Stone Friary in Hyde Park, half a block from St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School.—
Bob Ortega,
CNN Money,
9 May 2025
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British Columbia also moved to expand its provincial tax incentive, in the face of a severe downturn in film employment in recent years.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
9 May 2025
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That led to even more significant understaffing at the Newark approach control site, requiring airlines to delay or cancel hundreds of flights over the last week – and turning a situation that had been causing consternation in the insular air traffic controller community into a national headache.—
Casey Tolan,
CNN Money,
7 May 2025
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To overcome this blind spot, CEOs can intentionally break out of insular executive circles and recalibrate their understanding of today’s market realities.—
Joseph Santana,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Mar. 2025
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While the show has been dinged since its earliest days for having a blinkered or inaccurate depiction of its Chicago environs, that tends to matter most to critics from Chicago.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
27 July 2024
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Driven together by anti-Western grievance and their own parochial interests, China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are creating substantial authoritarian scale.—
Kurt M. Campbell,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Apr. 2025
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The plum political prize, of course, will be deciding how congressional districts are drawn, perhaps giving this parochial court a major say in which party—and its preferred Speaker—gets to run the U.S. House.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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At times, some say, the agency has been too hidebound.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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That gives them flexibility and the ability to take risks that can’t be made in more hidebound traditional schools.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
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This can help calm nerves and reactionary responses in a stressful moment.—
Jamie Griffith,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Prepare these budgets in advance to avoid making reactionary measures if indeed Social Security payments are disrupted.—
True Tamplin,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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If child custody is a factor, the child’s testimony is parsed under the light of a biased adult who either coached the child, or negatively influenced the child by asking leading questions, so as to distort the child’s memory and reporting.—
Patricia Fersch,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA WRITING ON THE WALL – NPR CEO claps back at notion outlet is biased after Trump slashes taxpayer funds.—
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FOXNews.com,
5 May 2025
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But Chase Strangio, who runs the ACLU's LGBTQ and HIV Project, says any shift is because conservative politicians and groups have flooded voters with messaging that says transgender people are a threat.—
Sam Gringlas,
NPR,
10 May 2025
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In early April, House Speaker Mike Johnson huddled with a handful of conservative hardliners as the fate of President Donald Trump's most important second-term bill hung in the balance.—
Riley Beggin,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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