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Recent Examples of blinkered
His was a kinder form of the historical determinism of a Morgan or a Grant perhaps, but no less blinkered and time-bound.
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Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
In Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II, the Dartmouth literary scholar James A.W. Heffernan proposes that academic and popular histories, diaries, and journalistic accounts offer only a blinkered view of the past.
—Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
The neoliberal consensus between progressives and libertarians has produced a blinkered set of moral concerns.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021
American politics, guided by the neoliberal consensus between progressives and libertarians, has focused on a blinkered set of moral concerns and blindly pursued the unquestioned priorities of personal freedom and consumption.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021
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Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
In Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II, the Dartmouth literary scholar James A.W. Heffernan proposes that academic and popular histories, diaries, and journalistic accounts offer only a blinkered view of the past.
—Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
The neoliberal consensus between progressives and libertarians has produced a blinkered set of moral concerns.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021
American politics, guided by the neoliberal consensus between progressives and libertarians, has focused on a blinkered set of moral concerns and blindly pursued the unquestioned priorities of personal freedom and consumption.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blinkered
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Columbus Today Columbus is no longer the parochial, third-tier Midwestern city big dreamers must leave in order to fulfil their potential.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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But parochial political feuds and byzantine zoning codes have hampered LA’s efforts to get more new housing off the ground.—
Carly Stern,
Vox,
6 Dec. 2024
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Belichick, always an insular coach, further withdrew during that season amid his team’s struggles, according to team sources with knowledge of the situation.—
Chad Graff,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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An even more explicit example of Marin County’s stubborn resistance is occurring in Fairfax, another insular community a few miles from Newsom’s new home.—
Dan Walters,
The Mercury News,
12 Dec. 2024
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In Canada, this is largely a provincial responsibility, but the national government shouldered a lot of the blame.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Canadian provincial driver's license or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada card.—
Michael Salerno,
The Arizona Republic,
31 Dec. 2024
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Cutting a long story short, a vocal minority of reactionary gamers is perturbed that a sci-fi video game features a Black samurai protagonist, despite the game’s hokey premise centering on the genetic recording of memories written to computer software.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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And the rise of reactionary populism—not just in North America and Europe but also in India and in parts of Latin America—has shattered the ideological dominance that liberalism enjoyed for two decades after the end of the Cold War.—
Alexander Cooley,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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