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Recent Examples of blinkered
Photo : Public domain Preston Tucker’s car was an ambitious but failed experiment, an unfortunate cocktail fueled by the inventor’s own hubris, ill-willed government bureaucracy, and Detroit’s blinkered automotive industrial complex.
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Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
This was a blinkered view of reproductive healthcare rights, however.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Warren’s blinkered statement provoked a backlash, and rightly so.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024
By refusing to address the link between industrialization and global warming, Parker ultimately gives a skewed picture of the resolution of the crisis and a blinkered view of its implications for environmental policy today.
—Deborah R. Coen, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014
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Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
This was a blinkered view of reproductive healthcare rights, however.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Warren’s blinkered statement provoked a backlash, and rightly so.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024
By refusing to address the link between industrialization and global warming, Parker ultimately gives a skewed picture of the resolution of the crisis and a blinkered view of its implications for environmental policy today.
—Deborah R. Coen, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinkered
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The move likely seeks to rein in parochial infighting between military branches, which compete for congressional funding every year despite Hegseth and the White House officially controlling the process.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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The disagreement is colored by Maine’s parochial politics.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Results showed that videos activated brain areas linked to reward and emotion (the middle frontal gyrus and nucleus accumbens), while sounds alone activated areas tied to emotion and body awareness (the insular cortex).—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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Integrative regions such as the temporal poles and insular cortex allow both positive and negative events to fit together, potentially into a framework that facilitates long-term well-being.—
Anthony Vaccaro,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The State Department sanctioned the oligarch, a one-time provincial governor in Ukraine, and designated his wife and two children as ineligible for entry into the United States this past March 5.—
Olena Loginova,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Burghers with no family interest in the results were there just to see who had fallen into the bottom 10 percent—that was a bigger draw than honoring the top 5 percent, who would sit the following month for the provincial round.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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The gaydar of a founding mother and a Jesuit moralist will always be far more attuned than the intuition of a mob of reactionary haters.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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That could be way too reactionary and dramatic, but the vultures and sharks in this league are headed there with this situation.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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The nation’s scientific institutions have become hidebound.—
David Merritt Johns,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
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And while challenges persist, there are already signs that hidebound profligacy is being replaced by newfound autarky.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinkered. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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