How to Use blinkered in a Sentence

blinkered

adjective

• Ulbricht also had the same blinkered view of the consequences of his actions.
  — Nitasha Tiku, New York Times, 12 June 2017
• Many physicists take these troubles to mean that their field has gone astray and that their colleagues are too blinkered to notice.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
• The fault doesn’t wholly lie with Clegg, who as the company’s head of global affairs is no doubt hemmed in by Zuckerberg’s own blinkered vision.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2019
• From the point of view of an opposition party, anything that can get the president so blinkered with rage has merit.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 10 May 2017
• But his ascent has given him a blinkered view of the power of talent, ingenuity, and gumption.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
• And that would leave the United States weaker and poorer, too, even if there are a great many people in Washington who are too ignorant and blinkered to understand the fact.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 June 2019
• Given the details of the situation, however, there’s a case to be made for disabusing your blinkered boss.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2019
• But at the height of their powers, giant companies make blinkered, unreliable guides to their own futures.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it—that's the argument.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 26 May 2018
• The question is far from academic, since the president’s blinkered behavior plays right into the autocrats’ hands.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 8 June 2018
• The Kremlin was no less blinkered and smug than our own establishment, a k a Mr. Comey, in its understanding of the Trump phenomenon and contempt for democratic outcomes.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• Having served Soviet Russia, Geim knows only too well the risks of blinkered national hubris and isolationism.
  — Simon Parkin, Bloomberg.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• McMaster faced the pervasive dysfunction at the N.S.C. with his usual blinkered optimism.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• Any but the most blinkered apologist for Israel would have to concede that Israel’s response went at least somewhat beyond its legitimate security needs.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 15 May 2018
• Some would point to Kuhn’s scientific paradigms and argue that medicine wasn’t ready for such a shift in thinking, others that it reflects the entirely unscientific nature of premodern medicine and the blinkered self-confidence of doctors.
  — Henry Marsh, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
• Despite her reputation for controversy, Roiphe has never been that formidable a polemicist; her perspective is too blinkered, her blind spots too obvious.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• His supporters say this is a blinkered view, arguing Grinspoon conducted work at significant professional risk and helped to inspire new research into medical uses of cannabis.
  — Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• If prison holds a dark mirror to society — reflecting our fissures and anxieties and our blinkered faith in institutional bureaucracy — then prison literature offers one way to restore a human element to the system.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• The failings of normcore politics start with a somewhat blinkered and romantic view of American history which, as Ezra Klein recently argued in his review of much of the democratic crisis literature, is actually quite ugly.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 July 2018
• Yiannopoulos is of a blinkered tradition that sees no distinction worth examining between martyrdom and limitations on one’s ability to attack others.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
• The determination with which politicians and policymakers cling to this blinkered view can be seen in the lonely quest of Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
  — Jackson Diehl, The Denver Post, 8 July 2019
• Transcendentalists like Emerson were searching for unity in nature, but resisted what seemed to them the blinkered reliance on deductive reasoning and empirical research enforced by encroaching science.
  — Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• These individuals represent experts who believe in the power of technology to positively change the future, but are also aware of the societal, environmental and economic dangers of blinkered innovation.
  — Andrew Maynard, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• Some nations, in particular the U.S. and Russia, are looking only at the potential military advantages of autonomous systems—a blinkered view that prevents them from considering the disturbing scenarios that can unfold when rivals catch up.
  — Noel Sharkey, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024