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Recent Examples of narrow-minded The deficient vice of being open-minded is being narrow-minded. Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Knowledge-wise, science may be advancing, but, politically, its powers of persuasion are in retreat, in a moment defined, in many ways, by ignorance and narrow-minded grievance. Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025 Its opposite—illiberal—means stingy, narrow-minded, intolerant, provincial, unenlightened, and using government to insure the flourishing of only the few. Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025 That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025 Of the trio, Bernadette was written as the strictest rule-follower — possibly even the most narrow-minded. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025 Some people associate a frugal spender with a narrow-minded person who is a tightwad, a cheapskate, a penny-pincher, and worse of all an outright scrooge. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025 People are going to take things and run with them and be narrow-minded or whatever or take something out of context. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narrow-minded
Adjective
  • Students have a narrow window to unlock access to training that could dramatically shape their post-grad trajectory.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, OPOs have been bulky systems with narrow ranges.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, fashion is very parochial and very predictable.
    James Fallon, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Antoni, who once ran a Twitter account featuring bigoted attacks and conspiracy theories and who economists across the political spectrum say is unqualified, has suggested suspending the Bureau’s monthly job report altogether.
    Marianne Cooper, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But Target’s response frustrated supporters of gay and transgender rights, who said the company caved to bigoted pressure.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Even if advised by a manufacturer, the marble cleaning solution should still be tested on a small, inconspicuous area before getting started.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Her list continues with small but frustrating oversights.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One particularly notable viral video featured the son of a provincial government minister posing in front of a tree made from boxes of luxury labels including Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Gucci.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The provincial assembly for the Gandaki province in Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, was set on fire, as well as the Siraha District Court in southeast Nepal, and at least a dozen government buildings across the Rupandehi province and the Gautam Buddha International Airport in the area.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the next 1,358 days, there would be just a handful of credible sightings of Phillips, mostly connected with petty crimes in nearby small towns.
    Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing is too petty, too silly, too stupid, or too weird to be included.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The military that took over Burkina Faso in a 2022 coup has grown increasingly intolerant of dissent amid worsening Islamist militant violence in the West African country.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The Slow Burn of Modern Taste Low-caf is not just a compromise for caffeine-intolerant souls.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The structure is stale and insular, with glaring blind spots.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When 17 children from one classroom inexplicably run out into the night, a frightened insular community starts pointing fingers at their young schoolteacher (Julia Garner) and the sole survivor, Alex (Cary Christopher).
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Narrow-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narrow-minded. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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