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blinding

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verb

present participle of blind
as in stunning
to overpower with light the bright lights in the TV studio momentarily blinded the quiz show contestants

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of blinding
Adjective
Don’t forget to highlight your cheeks and the tip of your nose with a blinding highlighter. Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2025 On a recent Saturday, a group of rank-and-file Democrats, standing in the blinding midday sun on a football field in Tucson, Arizona, spoke about their frustrations with their party. Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025 At least three people have died as a powerful system of storms sweeps across the a wide swathe of the central and southern of the United States, with another three killed in vehicle crashes as blinding winds whipped through Texas and Oklahoma. Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025 Without that tip, the focus on O’Keefe’s death may have remained on a car accident in a blinding snow blizzard, hampering claims during the first trial that Read’s boyfriend had been killed inside the Fairview Road property and that his body had been dumped out in the snow. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blinding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinding
Adjective
  • This user experience gap is a glaring oversight that leaves many customers frustrated, confused and wondering if the futuristic fintech promises were just clever marketing.
    Sal Rehmetullah, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Brunson’s game-winning, ice-cold three only numbed the pain the Knicks endured — pain a better opponent will continue to impose on a team that has shown more glaring holes than bright spots.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • Gaga retells the story of Judas Iscariot through the eyes of a Mary Magdalene torn between Jesus and Judas, love and temptation, aggressive verses and dazzling melodic choruses.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • However, Fahy and Sklenar share the chemistry of dazzling movie stars and provide the appearance of immense depth and complexity when the film broaches the subject of the abuse Violet has faced in her past.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Glaser, from a very glancing stylistic consideration, looks like a multicam by comparison.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Outside of the emotional rollercoaster of Keisha and Justin’s romance, the series offers generous and glittering depictions of family, friendship and young adulthood.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 May 2025
  • Leave it to Cartier to make the night’s most glittering party feel like an intimate encore.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • This year there have been multiple flaring incidents, including planned flaring that occurred during maintenance work in February and several weeks in April and May.
    Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Oil refining giant Valero must pay a $1.2 million penalty for major flaring incidents at its Benicia facility that spewed dark plumes of pollutants into neighborhoods, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday.
    Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • Against elites, his Dangerous Fenwick is just over 50 percent, but his goal share (11-1) is a scintillating 91 percent.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The attention required to keep up isn’t always rewarded by the most scintillating developments in a plot that tends more often to simmer on a medium flame than come to a boil.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Blinding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinding. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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