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Recent Examples of blinkered
This was a blinkered view of reproductive healthcare rights, however.
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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
While the show has been dinged since its earliest days for having a blinkered or inaccurate depiction of its Chicago environs, that tends to matter most to critics from Chicago.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 July 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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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
While the show has been dinged since its earliest days for having a blinkered or inaccurate depiction of its Chicago environs, that tends to matter most to critics from Chicago.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 July 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
Adjective
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This week, in parochial and Christian schools across Chicago and the suburbs, schoolchildren filed into pews with their classmates to observe church services ahead of the school day.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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Funded by political parties and subscribers, such papers were thoroughly partisan and parochial.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The interview is alternately boring and compelling, offering a glimpse into an insular world of privilege and entitlement.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2025
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At age 18, Ammon made the decision to leave his Amish family and start a life beyond the insular, Luddite community.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The trial also resulted in five other convictions of hospital and provincial health officials for concealment and omission-of-duty counts, the Buenos Aires Times and Chequeado reported.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Most of the injured were taken to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre by air and land, a spokesperson for the provincial health organization Shared Health said in a statement to CNN.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Many organizations treat it as a reactionary tool—adjusted in response to cost pressures or competitive moves.—
Ashish Verma,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The resulting reactionary war on culture turned out to be much bigger than antagonism against punk.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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At times, some say, the agency has been too hidebound.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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That gives them flexibility and the ability to take risks that can’t be made in more hidebound traditional schools.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinkered. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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