blindfolded

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Recent Examples of blindfolded March 22, 2025 Video footage verified by The New York Times appeared to show a fighter from Bara Ibn Malik, an Islamist militia that fights alongside the military, thrashing eight blindfolded men with a hose about 10 miles from the city center. Declan Walsh, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025 Ballal said he was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten while detained in a military facility. Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025 The soldiers left him blindfolded and handcuffed throughout [the] military base last night. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025 Per Adra, soldiers subsequently took Ballal, handcuffed and blindfolded, from his home into a military vehicle. Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blindfolded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindfolded
Adjective
  • Lamb and provincial wildlife biologist Sean O’Donovan show off one new electric-fenced yard in a former conflict hot spot a few miles outside Fernie.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • One person recently retired after 25 years at a provincial phone company.
    Karen Fonseth, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Our heroine is Devon (Meghann Fahy), a hot mess from Buffalo who has arrived on a rich and insular Martha’s Vineyard-eque island in search of her younger sister Simone (Milly Alcock).
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
  • Business history is littered with failures rooted in the suppression of dissenting views: Swissair’s board became increasingly insular and overconfident before the airline's collapse in 2002.
    Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
  • While the show has been dinged since its earliest days for having a blinkered or inaccurate depiction of its Chicago environs, that tends to matter most to critics from Chicago.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 July 2024
Adjective
  • It could not be fenced off and become a parochial one now.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Investors might want to be less parochial just as political policy becomes increasingly so.
    Ron Insana, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • At times, some say, the agency has been too hidebound.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • That gives them flexibility and the ability to take risks that can’t be made in more hidebound traditional schools.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Influencers are more reactionary by nature, so we are focused on inviting key journalists.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • And so, amid the noise and smoke of the culture wars, Cobb’s quaintly reactionary act intersected with vituperative Trumpian revanchism, and Cobb became a conservative TV personality.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • This solution reinforced my own experience with what felt like biased and unfair systems.
    Jyoti Jani, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • The defense lawyers have accused Proctor of manipulating evidence and conducting a biased investigation.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • The blog post that Trump showed Ramaphosa during the White House meeting was published by American Thinker, a conservative online magazine, about conflict and racial tensions in South Africa and Congo.
    Stephanie Burnett, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Protecting these investments is the conservative, pro-growth and America First approach.
    Zach Colletti, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025

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“Blindfolded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindfolded. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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