blindsides

present tense third-person singular of blindside

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Verb
  • The designs were puckish and gender-bending, evoking both awe and repulsion—the sort of clothing that titillates lovers of conceptual fashion and bewilders the uninitiated.
    Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Wedged in the far southeastern corner of the bottom of the continent, between South Africa and Mozambique, Eswatini is the last absolute monarchy in Africa, a status that bewilders modernizers and beguiles traditionalists.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This blows away the daily record and ends up in second place ever for the month of August.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But the Royals and Guardians play each other this week, which muddles up the math a little bit (especially if Kansas City wins the series and hops the Guardians for second place).
    Christian Romo, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Relying on such sources is misleading and muddles the comparison with Chicago, which has better public transit than Philadelphia.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Again, all of this confounds traditional attempts at sense making.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This season dropped us in the middle of the action, where a mass shooting shakes up London and intensifies an already heated race to win Mayor.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Small Business Technology News #3 – AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Blindsides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindsides. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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