blindfolded

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Recent Examples of blindfolded His account closely resembles images broadcast in a February report on Israeli television about a detainee camp in southern Israel showing blindfolded men kneeling in tight rows, surrounded by armed guards. Hala Gorani, NBC News, 23 July 2024 Although he is returned, five days of being bound, blindfolded, beaten, and berated leave Carl with undiagnosed PTSD. Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024 The blindfolded taste test where Top Chef competitors come together to do the most American thing of all time: say the wrong thing with the utmost confidence. Khadjiah Johnson, Vulture, 5 June 2024 Patrick Kingsley visited the site. June 6, 2024 The men sat in rows, handcuffed and blindfolded, unable to see the Israeli soldiers who stood watch over them from the other side of a mesh fence. Bilal Shbair, New York Times, 6 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for blindfolded 
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Adjective
  • The city held the top spot on a real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities on Sunday after recording its highest-ever pollution reading of 1900 near the Pakistan-India border on Saturday, based on data released by the provincial government and Swiss group IQAir.
    Reuters, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Among others, on July 27, 2018, the DRC High Military Court upheld the conviction of 11 men, including a provincial deputy, found guilty in December 2017 of crimes against humanity for the rape of dozens of young children and girls and for murders in the village of Kavumu, 25 km from Bukavu.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Cassuto critiques the insular nature of most academic writing, which can be inaccessible to outsiders and, thus, not read.
    Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Today, Said’s views have achieved a kind of Pyrrhic victory within the academic humanities, where politically engaged criticism is both the norm and, not coincidentally, more insular and detached from public life than ever.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • With her big inward eyes and perpetual glower, Northam effectively conveys Elsa’s restless, blinkered life.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Then there was the museum’s debut survey of the film industry, which came in for a drubbing for what was perceived to be its anxious, overcompensating political correctness, coupled with a blinkered vision that paid little mind to the Hollywood studio system and its founders.
    Gary Baum for the Hollywood Reporter, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2024
Adjective
  • There are literally thousands of other Americans worldwide who have dedicated their lives in similar ways to causes that are more consequential than parochial nationalism.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Slipknot have since gone multi-platinum, founded their own music festival, and stretched far beyond their parochial metal scene into persistent cultural relevance.
    Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Belatedly, political classes (and some of Japan’s huge industrial conglomerates) are realizing the economic value, employment potential and soft power impact of a less hidebound and risk-averse film and TV industry.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
  • For a moment, bodies as hidebound as the Supreme Court and the papacy looked as if they might be rehabbed into vehicles for social justice.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • And so The Diplomat sets the stage for Wyler to be schooled, over and over, by Penn and her reactionary doctrine through the end of the season, a dynamic that with each scene reveals how little the series has done to make Wyler a lucid character of her own.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Stokes was reactionary whereas McCullum was more reflective.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Sometimes the responses of the AI are obviously biased, while at other times the bias is subtle and difficult to directly discern.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Critics argue their checks are insufficient, biased, applied inconsistently, or simply ineffective.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • This election ran smoothly because of the legislation and proactive lawsuits from the conservative movement, argued Arizona state Rep. Alexander Kolodin, a Republican who was sanctioned by the State Bar of Arizona for his role in challenging the 2020 election.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The company maintains a conservative liquidity position with available-for-sale securities and credit availability with the Federal Home Loan Bank.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024

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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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