blinkered

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Recent Examples of blinkered Warren’s blinkered statement provoked a backlash, and rightly so. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024 Alas, the blinkered SFO board has disgracefully not supported Salonen’s transformative vision. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for blinkered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinkered
Adjective
  • The plum political prize, of course, will be deciding how congressional districts are drawn, perhaps giving this parochial court a major say in which party—and its preferred Speaker—gets to run the U.S. House.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
  • There is nothing more parochial or bland than being a soft, white Anglican kid from Ottawa.
    Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In this insular neighborhood, there was suddenly a risk of land passing to outside parties.
    Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Decision-making becomes more insular, leading to blind spots or second-guessing.
    Alex Brueckmann, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Whereas the Romans allied with provincial elites, enabling them to benefit from the empire’s success, the Han rulers attempted to weaken the local elites by forcing powerful families to resettle in or near the capital.
    Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • One model he's suggested is that of a federal configuration divided into provincial units that could be tasked with local decision-making on issues such as education while still answering to a common central government.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Teams take pride in removing emotion from decisions and loathe making moves that can be interpreted as reactionary.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This reactionary strategy keeps companies mired in the past, unable to leverage real-time analytics, artificial intelligence and automation.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Real, by contrast, are hidebound by tradition, in thrall to their history, the lofty expectations created by their glorious past hardwired into their enduring reality.
    Rory Smith, The Athletic, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Those fired were not hidebound deep state bureaucrats merely slurping from the federal trough.
    Southern California News Group Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025

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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blinkered. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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