blindfolded

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Recent Examples of blindfolded This suggests that pitch competitions can be compared with beauty pageants with blindfolded judges. Dileep Rao, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025 He was then taken away, handcuffed and blindfolded, and put into a military vehicle. Meredith Kile, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025 Their bodies were found wrapped in plastic, blindfolded, bound and gagged on a farm in March 1985. Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025 In the clip, Jess led her blindfolded boyfriend outdoors, where a celebration full of food, balloons and friends and family awaited. Nicole Briese, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blindfolded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindfolded
Adjective
  • The Inuit community wants to work with scientists to set up a provincial park that would protect the land while allowing researchers to study it.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • Its funders include private companies and four layers of government (provincial, regional, national, and European).
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • His decision not to return to his village and his father signifies freedom from an insular past but also sets him on the path of finding his own identity.
    Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
  • The locals nearly revolted against the Hollywood film crew who’d invaded the insular island community to shoot the picture.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Working in the wedding-and-a-funeral formula, Burnett spins a comic-tragic yarn about Pierce (Everett Silas), a kind of blinkered fool, who works at his parent’s dry cleaners.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
  • But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Brian Colbert ran on a parochial platform focused on garden-variety local issues.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • In his quest for a definitive biography of Joyce as a cosmopolitan artist, above the parochial fray, Ellmann downplayed Joyce’s interest in politics.
    Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • At times, some say, the agency has been too hidebound.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • The new title exemplifies one of Perry’s favorite moves, which is to present reactionary conservatism as simple common sense.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • The team leaders and coaches have cautioned against being reactionary, encouraging small adjustments rather than major ones.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • And Read’s many supporters – both outside the Dedham, Massachusetts, courthouse and online – championed her case, echoing her allegations of police corruption as her defense inside the courtroom painted the investigation as flawed and biased.
    Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
  • There can be data bias, which is when AI systems are trained on biased data that can contain an overrepresentation of some groups (white people for example) and an underrepresented of other groups (non-white people for example).
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Hochberg's team linked Nagle's brain to a computer using old-fashioned wires that passed through his skull.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • In most cases, this means reaching for old-fashioned oats.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 29 June 2025

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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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