as in to befuddle
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Recent Examples of blindside
So he was blindsided when, on Jan. 31, he was placed on indefinite administrative leave, along with dozens of other Department of Education employees.
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Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
Luka Dončić and Anthony Davis got blindsided by a blockbuster.
—Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
Storm was blindsided by Dickson Wong, who shockingly sent MG’s showmance partner out of the game.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025
This results in Olympia and Matty getting blindsided over and over by new information and new witnesses that the defense team didn’t have time to share.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
Luka Dončić and Anthony Davis got blindsided by a blockbuster.
—Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
Storm was blindsided by Dickson Wong, who shockingly sent MG’s showmance partner out of the game.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025
This results in Olympia and Matty getting blindsided over and over by new information and new witnesses that the defense team didn’t have time to share.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindside
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The Eagles’ most remarkable feature in the Super Bowl was their zero blitzes by the defense, which befuddled three-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Patrick Mahomes.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Schumer and the others who voted yes fear that TikTok will go dark tomorrow and 170 million befuddled and enraged American users will blame them.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Unenlightened of the brownie’s incredible taste, I was bewildered by the perfect combination of these three types of chocolate.—
Mia Leimkuhler,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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The appeal bewilders attorneys for the 300,000 plaintiffs who each missed out on $3,000 when DeWine cut off the benefits in June 2021 — 10 weeks before they were set to expire.—
Sam Allard,
Axios,
21 Feb. 2025
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Things were bleak in Champaign, where Illinois had become a regular cellar dweller in the Big Ten and wasn’t much of a threat to shake up the conference’s power dynamic.—
Grace Raynor,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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The other guests, just about all of them privileged and White, are due to get profoundly shaken up.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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That is a disconcerting, even chilling prospect for sources in the news division, who see the legendary house of Murrow and Cronkite caught in the middle as controlling Paramount Global shareholder Shari Redstone is anxious to close the transaction.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025
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He’s disconcerted but not deterred when her behavior becomes less and less like that of a woman whose husband is pretty much presumed dead after his shirt and wallet are found on the rocks overlooking a patch of ocean known for its treacherous currents.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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In June and September the ash blew away from Anchorage.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Stellar energy hitting the disk can ionize the gas inside of it, blowing away the gas.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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But there are discomfiting signs that HTS is already abandoning an inclusive mentality and intends to consolidate single-party Islamist rule.—
Fawaz A. Gerges,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Jan. 2025
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But overjoyed liberals seem to again have a discomfiting ally in Trump, who released a curious post-collapse statement that appeared to heap ridicule on Putin.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
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Sociologists have been perplexed at the scale and stubbornness of the decline in fertility, which does not appear to be materially impacted by various governments' attempts to intervene with supposedly birth-inducing policies like tax credits.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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For years, astronomers have been perplexed by this particular supermassive black hole, a behemoth as large as a million suns in a distant galaxy.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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He’s also muddled his message to congressional Republicans looking for guidance on how to implement his agenda.—
David Sivak,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
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The sushi bar is where the Chinese American brand (which the Panda restaurants have so painstakingly worked to establish) gets muddled in an overzealous play at fusion.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Blindside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindside. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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