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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
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But quietly, the third-year forward had put himself in position for a more parochial reserve reward, one that caught him unaware.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
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The school, a private parochial campus overseen by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, had 390 students in kindergarten through eighth grade in 2025, according to its website.—
Nick El Hajj,
Des Moines Register,
25 Mar. 2026
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Westmont is a small, insular community often selected for its security — when are people going to start moving out?—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2026
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Its architecture firms export designs across the world, but only a handful of outside auteurs manage to penetrate the city’s insular development world, not always with great success.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
1 Apr. 2026
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For a global city, New York can be awfully provincial.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
1 Apr. 2026
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The center was opened in Fuzhou, the provincial capital, in 2023.—
Didi Kirsten Tatlow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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Procter & Gamble, meanwhile, which sold some of its beauty holdings to Coty but still has mega personal care brands such as Olay, Head & Shoulders and Pantene, as well as SK-II, isn’t expected to be reactionary.—
Kathryn Hopkins,
Footwear News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America, and this reactionary nightmare — and these invasions of American cities — will not stand.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
29 Mar. 2026
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And while a few of its more hidebound customs can present something of an endurance test—outside of Chicagoland, nobody actually enjoys Take Me Out to the Ball Game—fans would probably riot if MLB managers stopped wearing their team’s uniform.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Trump expresses confidence that his nominee to become Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, can unleash an economic bonanza by jettisoning what the president sees as the central bank’s hidebound reluctance to slash interest rates.—
Paul Wiseman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinkered. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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