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blindside

verb

Definition of blindside

as in to befuddle

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Recent Examples of blindside The six-part series follows ordinary people blindsided by manipulators who know exactly how to weaponize tenant protections and turn the legal system against the very people it's supposed to protect. — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026 Despite Tiffany Ervin wanting to blindside Rizo Velovic and flush out his idol, the group remained in lockstep on snuffing Rick's torch. — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 May 2026 Lusth was blindsided by his allies, including Jonathan Young and Rizo Velovic. — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 7 May 2026 Further, credit card devaluations are seldom announced far in advance and can often blindside people by reducing the value of stockpiled rewards. — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blindside

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Two weeks after befuddling football fans from Duluth to Daytona Beach, Texas PAC engineered an even more straightforward placement by snapping up a unit in NBC’s Sunday Night Football.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026
For Bass, the program is evidence that her administration has made progress on an issue that befuddled her predecessors.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of befuddle

Verb

Many Eagles players were concerned and bewildered by the development.

— Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Latif is conflicted by his double life, bewildered by his doubling of parental responsibilities, constantly trying to think two moves ahead yet always ending up three steps behind.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of bewilder

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Apple unveiled on Wednesday the Duo, a folding $1,999 iPhone aimed at shaking up a category long dominated by Samsung and Chinese companies such as Huawei, whose devices have struggled to move beyond a niche audience.

— Hyunjoo Jin, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
But at the end of last term, Madrid president Florentino Perez turned to him to shake up a side which had failed to win a major trophy for a second successive season.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of shake up

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But the growing concentration of wealth has been disconcerting for voters.

— Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
One of the first chatbots, Eliza, built at MIT in the mid-1960s, ran a therapy script called DOCTOR that asked users questions about their feelings and experiences—and left its creator disconcerted about his technology’s strong emotional pull.

— Steven Barrie-Anthony, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of disconcert

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As someone who recently learned how to play Mahjong, I was thrilled to receive this as a gift and was blown away by the presentation and detail put into the set.

— Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 2 Nov. 2026
The soil dried out, came loose, was blown away to reveal all kinds of things.

— Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of blow away

Verb

At Telluride, Fielder, who had initially planned to stay behind the scenes, admitted he was still perplexed by the couple’s openness.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
They were perplexed at first, flummoxed, but pleasant, and unfortunately for them, already long gone from the airport.

— Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2026

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