blinds 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of blind
as in stuns
to overpower with light the bright lights in the TV studio momentarily blinded the quiz show contestants

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noun

plural of blind
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as in nooks

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as in smoke screens

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Recent Examples of blinds
Verb
Odysseus blinds the Cyclops and escapes Circe with the help of a magic herb, but not before losing some of his men. — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 After Odysseus blinds him and later reveals his true identity, Polyphemus calls on Poseidon to curse the rest of the hero’s voyage home. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026 Dust blinds every two weeks and clean them at least twice each year to maintain a fresh, healthy home. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 1 July 2026 Gartner predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027, and analyst Anushree Verma noted that most are driven by hype that blinds organizations to real deployment complexity. — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 The way that Nathan’s wealth and ideology blinds him to the implications and risks of his technology is eerily similar to the behavior of contemporary techworld figures like Palantir’s Alex Karp. — David Faris, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2026 But this technocratic benevolence blinds officials to the economic anxieties on the ground. — Yunus Emre Tozal, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026 Impacts can disable sensors, snap fins, or stir sediment that blinds cameras. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026 Set in the 1930s in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, the show imagines Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge as the owner of a mining company town where his callous greed blinds him to the joys and gifts of the season. — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2025
Noun
The large slats of shutters might be easier to vacuum than those of mini blinds or even cellular shades, so make a plan based on your window blind type and style. — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinds
  1. stuns
  2. nooks
  3. fronts
  4. dazzles
  5. recesses
  6. frauds
  7. overwhelms
  8. nests
Verb
  • Paula Abdul stuns in neon orange for The Hollywood Reporter’s A-list Aesthetics event at Hotel Bel-Air on July 15 in Los Angeles.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
  • Set the scene This resort stuns, with magical panoramic views of the northern coastline of Crete.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
Definition of stuns
Noun
  • The nooks, with their plush seating and fluffy pillows, have books stacked on either end.
    — Jaha Nailah Avery, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Some are cozy attic nooks and others spacious suites with bathrooms at the entrance and tubs next to the bed.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of nooks
Noun
  • The fire — at one point burning on five fronts — torched dozens of homes and more than 100 square kilometers (39 square miles) of land.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In the first season, he was met with resistance on all fronts to his unorthodox methods of coaching, his ignorance of the sport, his sheer Americanness.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of fronts
Verb
  • Like Glinda’s bubble, the song dazzles with its light-refracting synth production, but Grande’s meaning feels slightly at a remove.
    — Aimee Cliff, Pitchfork, 31 July 2026
  • This lacecap hydrangea dazzles with electric blue flowers atop compact, sturdy stems that resist flopping in the garden.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 June 2026
Definition of dazzles
Noun
  • The resolution will now head to the Senate, but with August recesses for both chambers rapidly approaching, the clock is ticking.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 23 July 2026
  • In a Fox News op-ed published Monday, the hard-line conservative asserted that the upper chamber takes too many recesses and has too short of a workweek.
    — Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 13 July 2026
Definition of recesses
Noun
  • Philly may be shedding its second-fiddle status, but it remains entirely repulsed by frauds and underachievers.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
  • Focus Your Defenses Where The Risk Is Highest​ Many of today's biggest frauds begin with an email, an invoice or a payment request that looks completely legitimate.
    — Mark Beare, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of frauds
Verb
  • And yet, in Yoon’s hands, a character’s suffering never overwhelms their capacity for tenderness.
    — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • One person has died and rescues are underway as catastrophic flooding overwhelms the Hill Country, a little more than a year after the July 4 floods killed more than 130 people in Central Texas.
    — Mary Ella Hastings July 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
Definition of overwhelms
Noun
  • The Swainson’s hawk nests in Solano County and the Central Valley from March through September, traveling thousands of miles to spend winters in Mexico and Argentina.
    — Bay City News, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Some wasps use the underground homes of other animals to build their nests.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of nests

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