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blind

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verb

as in to dazzle
to overpower with light the bright lights in the TV studio momentarily blinded the quiz show contestants

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blind

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noun

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Recent Examples of blind
Adjective
Balcones Distillery’s single malt whisky is big and bold in classic Texas fashion, while Virginia Distillery Co. and Cedar Ridge make an ‘old world’ style of single malt that could easily fool a scotch drinker in a blind tasting. Chris Perugini, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 His passing also sheds light on the challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in emergency situations, as Sykes, who was born blind and had cerebral palsy, was unable to escape in time. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
Verb
Eagles Quarterback, Jalen Hurts, caused much conversation online after appearing at a post-game press conference wearing a diamond Cuban-link chain with a blinding pendant. Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 19 Dec. 2024 Laser strikes can temporarily blind pilots or worse in some of the most critical times of a flight—when a plane is near the ground for takeoff or landing. Pete Muntean, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
Of course, the truest form of mobile hunting is deer hunting from the ground from a natural blind. Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024 According to the Indiana Capital Chronicle, witnesses were only allowed to watch the execution for six minutes before blinds to the viewing room were closed. CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for blind 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blind
Adjective
  • Also, since these wines generally do not age well – most are designed to be drunk upon release or within 2 to 3 years – producing enough to meet market demand while keeping a close eye on shifting consumer trends may make good business sense.
    Liz Thach, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The lyrics are threaded with images of a life that’s young, fun, and free: being naked on a beach, flying to Paris on a whim, being drunk at a bar.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Test yourself on Hollywood highlights, dazzling debuts and federal festivities inthis week's American Culture Quiz.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • During the Wednesday, January 8 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, River and Remy dazzled the crowd during their first interview — and looked just like their mom while doing it.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Photo : Simon Berlyn A seating nook can be found just off the den.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2025
  • My brother’s bedroom was intended to be a walk-in closet, mine a breakfast nook, and neither had doors.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The concern is that this might be a kind of smoke screen.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Any dignified motivations that had once held sway—making art for art’s sake, acting to minimize suffering—became smoke screens to distract others from my selfishness.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • That makes for quick, sightless control of both radio volume and climate temperature.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Our new unlucky heroine is terminally ill writer Sam (Lupita Nyong’o), out of the hospital on a day trip to the city when sightless monsters begin falling from the sky.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 June 2024
Adjective
  • Cori Clingman was arrested for alleged negligent manslaughter, homicide as a result of negligent driving and drunken driving and several other counts on Thursday, Jan. 23, per the Star-Tribune.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Buckeyes faithful — scarlet-clad, drunken, frigid from the cold — were finally unshackled from all those losses to Michigan and all those unmet expectations.
    Justin Williams, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Legal Challenges Image Legal scholars and immigration advocates said on Tuesday that they were stunned by the breadth of the order.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Director Mohammad Rasoulof tracks social and moral collapse with the kind of unnerving calm and visual precision that made the Iranian New Wave so striking when Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees and Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence first stunned the film world in the 1990s.
    Armond White, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Check out a video for the single below; scroll down for the Leaving Home cover artwork.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 16 Jan. 2025
  • About a week and a half later, my grandma texted me that one of the trees was chopped down and the cover for the axe was still on it right by the tree.
    Rustin Dodd, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025

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