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Recent Examples of blinkered
The strong ensemble includes Odessa A’zion, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, and a revelatory straight-man turn from Josh Hutcherson, but its undeniable center is star and series creator Rachel Sennott, whose performance as the blinkered, ambitious Maia holds these spiraling players together.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
In his letters, Chekhov could sound like Ivan, lambasting the blinkered privilege of Russia’s aristocracy and the state of poverty in which most of the people were mired in.
—Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
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.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
In his letters, Chekhov could sound like Ivan, lambasting the blinkered privilege of Russia’s aristocracy and the state of poverty in which most of the people were mired in.
—Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
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.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinkered
Adjective
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This aligns with findings from empathy research, which distinguishes between parochial empathy (caring for one’s in-group) and universal empathy (concern for all people).—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Working-class voters visiting a Reform clubhouse were more likely to find young professionals discussing weighty matters of foreign policy rather than parochial issues like street paving.—
Daniel Wortel-London,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The new song moves away from the Reagan-era-pop fixation of Harry’s House, an insular work also shaped by domestic seclusion in 2020.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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In so doing, avoid withdrawing NATO’s commitment to defend NATO member states’ remote, former (and, in the case of Cyprus, coincidentally insular) colonial territories was thus established as a norm for the alliance, not an exception – one that is newly relevant once again.—
Barry Scott Zellen,
Hartford Courant,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In other attacks, militants attempted to storm the provincial headquarters of paramilitary forces in Nushki district, but the attack was repelled, police said.—
Abdul Sattar,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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Another separatist group called Stay Free Alberta has been gathering signatures for a petition to ask the provincial government to call a referendum, and some meetings have drawn large crowds.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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Sources back what Doar is saying, telling WCCO the response from other agents appears reactionary.—
Jennifer Mayerle,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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But Bloom’s legacy has had the unfortunate effect of making even more reasonable canon defenses look reactionary.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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 7 Feb. 2026.
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