as in stunning
to overpower with light
the bright lights in the TV studio momentarily blinded the quiz show contestants
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Recent Examples of blinding
Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Strip away the blinding effect of wild investment in AI and corporate America looks like corporate Europe.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Back in 2019, blinding lights flashed behind Matty Healy on stage at Coachella.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Back in 2019, blinding lights flashed behind Matty Healy on stage at Coachella.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Strip away the blinding effect of wild investment in AI and corporate America looks like corporate Europe.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
In a series of photos, Kelce can be seen on one knee, and then in a deep embrace with Swift, surrounded by white and pink roses and nearly blinding the camera with her Old Mine Brilliant cut diamond.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Back in 2019, blinding lights flashed behind Matty Healy on stage at Coachella.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinding
Adjective
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But the Democratic Party seems to prefer a selective vision of free speech, one that ignores the most glaring and visible current example of suppression.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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His most glaring mistake came in the bottom of the fifth, when Seiya Suzuki deposited a fastball that caught too much plate in the left-field bleachers.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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At just shy of 16,000 acres, the park contains roughly 20 miles of roads bordered by dazzling foliage.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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Sequins, rhinestones, and that dazzling aqua-orange palette are practically begging to be worn, danced in, and yes, painted right onto our nails.—
Abby Dupes,
Allure,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Its primary food source is the winter firefly (Diaphanes lampyroides), which attracts mates with a continuous, non-flashing light.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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On Earth, auroras appear as shimmering curtains of light when charged particles from the solar wind interact with our world's magnetic field.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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That same shimmering quality of the straps featured all over the high-waist skirt of the dress.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The ridiculously nourishing formula leaves you glistening but never greasy, with the coconut, açai, and brazil nut oils restoring suppleness to a level that pleased our testers as much as its tropical, coconutty scent and mess-free pump.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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What can any of us make of our momentary intimate lives in such an immense world, with equally immense unknowns, mysteries as great as death or the whale, as deep as love or the ocean, as sad and beautiful as a jellyfish torn and glistening in a small fortress of shore rock?—
Natalie Diaz
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This year, the rumors swirl, a constant, low hum: Outer Heaven and Cuatro Gato, two more flickering lights, are expected to fade.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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But there’s more flickering contrast in Narayan van Maele’s lensing, which alternates dun realism with occasionally hyperreal lighting and composition, particularly when the pagan promise of fire is in the frame.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2022
Adjective
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Glaser, from a very glancing stylistic consideration, looks like a multicam by comparison.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Aug. 2024
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Even so, Joonam is too scattershot and distanced from culture and politics to resonate with the news — potentially the film’s greatest draw — in more than a glancing way.—
Caryn James,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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The stories are fraught with violence and colonialism: Persian rugs, for instance, gained their glittering reputation in part from Victorian-era racial hierarchies.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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The actor, styled by Brad Goreski, wore a clingy, high-necked and long sleeve Gucci gown covered in black glittering sequin.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Blinding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinding. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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