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Recent Examples of bleary-eyed
Listen to this article For the first six years of his head coaching career, Tom Craft arrived at Palomar College’s football practices bleary-eyed and covered in plaster and drywall dust.
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
Verdict: These are very tasty, but still get you bleary-eyed.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
As dawn broke, a posse of bleary-eyed public servants, credentials on lanyards dangling over their sweatshirts, came out to meet the people.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
Childhood visits to Kenya were a mission in themselves—three days of connecting flights and interminable transits in Athens, Cairo, and Nairobi before arriving, bleary-eyed and bad-tempered, in Mombasa.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
Verdict: These are very tasty, but still get you bleary-eyed.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
As dawn broke, a posse of bleary-eyed public servants, credentials on lanyards dangling over their sweatshirts, came out to meet the people.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
Childhood visits to Kenya were a mission in themselves—three days of connecting flights and interminable transits in Athens, Cairo, and Nairobi before arriving, bleary-eyed and bad-tempered, in Mombasa.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary-eyed
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Despite constantly seeing that defense this season, Shanahan looked downright befuddled against it.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
12 Dec. 2024
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The animals are found in unnatural positions and drained entirely of blood by befuddled ranchers in Minnesota, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oregon and elsewhere. Sgt.—
Christina Coulter,
Fox News,
28 Nov. 2024
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But dopey dialogue and frat-boy humor deflate the pure thrill of its excellent gore.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
7 Feb. 2025
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As Malcolm in the Middle’s hilariously dopey, clueless dad Hal, Cranston was a household name long before donning Heisenberg’s pork pie hat.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.—
Jesse Hawley,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2021
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The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.—
Justin Torres,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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The packs of mules trekked through treacherous roadways and rocky mountain sides to deliver food, water and building supplies to those devastated by the hurricane.—
Devyn Byers,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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The trail from the bay leading to the preserve’s entrance is rough, rocky and messy.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
16 Feb. 2025
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Several years from now, however, if scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their way, some chinook salmon will be chasing a very different scent: the rich, beery bouquet of brewer’s yeast.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 July 2023
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In a beery bromance Instagram video posted on Monday (May 15), Combs taught Sheeran how to shotgun a beer.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
16 May 2023
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“Bleary-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleary-eyed. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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